it is not only the monsoon water pouring down downstream creating floods all over the place. ... and landslides. What about saturated soil causing upstream landslides..... What happend when floodplaines are saturated .... The dam was built on a fault zone, already there was a 4.3 in the area. With 170 meters of water level behind the dam reportedly, over such a wide area what is the pressure on the underlying bedrock?  What happens when seismic activity becomes more violent?  It may not be just the water, but a cascading series of events that will bring it down, causing a cataclysmic scenario with a lot of dead motherducking chinese and total disruption of the supply chain and huge damages to corporate valuations..... meaning stockmarket, meaning 401k.  Perhaps it is wise to co sider at least in part, to buy some AU. Also, consider your food supply.