According to a report by Sound of Hope, a drainage project on the Yellow River has breached. Video footage shows turbulent water at the scene, and some comments question the actual significance and effectiveness of pumping operations carried out after the breach.
On September 28, multiple areas in Dazhou, Sichuan, experienced heavy rainfall, causing rivers to swell rapidly and severe flooding. A netizen filmed a local police station submerged by the floodwaters.
Flood disasters occurred in Zhenlong Township, Hengzhou, Guangxi. The houses of multiple villagers were destroyed, and they are in urgent need of daily living supplies such as autumn and winter clothes, bedding, and kitchenware. Netizens have launched donation appeals on social media platforms.
On September 15, some areas of Wuzhishan City had been without water for multiple consecutive days due to flooding. At the emergency water distribution site, residents got into arguments and physical scuffles over grabbing water hoses and cutting in line, and order at the scene was thrown into chaos for a time.
On September 7, 2026, a video blogger recorded aerial footage of the flooding in Zuo'an Town, Suichuan County, Jiangxi and posted it online, only to receive calls from local government departments pressuring him to immediately delete the flood videos, sparking criticism of stability maintenance over disaster reporting.
On September 5, 2026, the BBC reported that on the ninth day after the catastrophic flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border, multiple survivors were rescued from a hydropower station tunnel. The disaster caused heavy casualties in both China and Nepal, with Tibetan officials reporting dozens dead and hundreds missing.
Chinese official reports state that as of September 4, the disaster has left 31 people dead and 531 missing, with a total of 987 personal belongings recovered at the scene.
On September 2, 2026, surviving workers at Nepal's Trishuli 3A hydropower station told the media that before the flash flood arrived on August 26, workers had requested evacuation, but the Chinese national in charge ordered them to stay and keep working while he left first, leaving multiple workers trapped in the tunnel.
Nepal's immigration department found in electronic records that on the day of the flood, 89 people departed for Tibet and 4 were registered as entering Nepal; the last transaction occurred at 8:35:03.
Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the floods have confirmed 903 deaths, about 4,200 people missing, and more than 10,000 rescued, with the missing including people from 38 countries.
Chinese authorities released disaster figures for the Tibetan side, saying 7 people were killed, 554 were missing, and 2 others were rescued.
Before the flood hit, workers requested evacuation but did not obtain approval from their Chinese-national supervisor; after the supervisor left, they fled, floodwaters and mud poured into the tunnel, and many were trapped.
On August 7, flower farmers in Hengzhou, Guangxi released footage showing that, affected by the flooding from the discharge of the Liulan Reservoir for more than ten days, large areas of jasmine plants in local fields had lost their leaves and withered, and the soil was severely compacted.
An insider from the Three Gorges Project revealed that the death toll in the Guangxi Hengzhou flood reached over 17,000 people. The insider also disclosed that the Three Gorges Dam has multiple water seepage issues at its base, and the leadership has arranged for their families to evacuate. The whistleblower claimed that relevant departments had analysis reports on the potential collapse of the Three Gorges Dam, predicting that a dam break would affect at least 470 million people.
The investigative report published by Southern Weekly, "Guangxi Liulan Reservoir Station Chief Talks About the 24 Hours Before the Breach," revealed that the reservoir's renovation cost billions yet was still a tofu-dreg project, the sluice gates were damaged, and of 54 staff on the payroll only 2 to 3 understood reservoirs; it was deleted across the entire internet within 24 hours of going online.