Dam eviction
Dam eviction is the act of legally displacing people living in an area which is to be flooded for the construction of a dam or reservoir.
- In 1965, 48 people of the Welsh village Capel Celyn were evicted to create Llyn Celyn reservoir.[1]
- In the construction of the Merowe Dam in Sudan, some 50,000 people were displaced in the 2000s.[2]
- Construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China required the loss of over a million people's homes and their mass relocation.[3]
References
- ^ Capel Celyn, Ten Years of Destruction: 1955–1965, by Einion Thomas, published by Cyhoeddiadau Barddas and Gwynedd Council, 2007, ISBN 978-1-900437-92-9
- ^ Seleshi Bekele Awulachew (2012). The Nile River Basin: Water, Agriculture, Governance and Livelihoods. Routledge. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-1-84971-283-5.
- ^ "Three Gorges dam wall completed". china-embassy. 20 May 2006. Retrieved 21 May 2006.