Displaced by Danjiangkou Dam
followed by a second wave of resettlement in the 2000s due to a massive expansion of the reservoir., Hundreds of thousands of people from over a thousand villages and towns have been displaced by the Danjiankou Reservoir. The towns inundated were in both Hubei Province and Hunan Province. Initial resettlement came in the 1960s
About this community
- River
- Han River
- Established
- 600 BCE
- Inundated
- 1966 to 2014
- Population
- 400,000
Sources
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/china-water-diversion-project-beijing-displaced-farmers
- https://conferences.iaia.org/manila-2017/pdf/presentations/Presentation_Gu.pdf
- https://journal.probeinternational.org/2010/12/09/forced-resettlements-at-danjiangkou-dam-turn-ugly-as-massive-water-diversion-for-beijing-gets-underway/
- https://www.chinafile.com/features/drinking-northwest-wind