Chinese water project prompts mass relocation
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China has started to relocate more than 300,000 people in Hubei and Henan provinces to make way for the government's south-north water diversion project. It's the second largest resettlement plan following a similar move during the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
The displaced, most of them farmers, have been offered little compensation. And critics fear the water project will only offer temporary relief to the thirsty North, and cause significant environmental and social problems.
Presenter: Lily Yan
Speakers: Hu Xingdou, social commentator, Beijing; Yang Yong, geologist; Yang Yong, Chinese scientist investigating the Yangzi River basin
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