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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.
In the construction of the
Merowe Dam
in
Sudan
, some 50,000 people were
displaced
in
the 2000s
.
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
.