China's most ambitious projects of the last two decades, the Three Gorges Dam and the South-North Water Diversion, have required hundreds of thousands of villagers to move to new homes hundreds of kilometers from where they were born.

We examine this upheaval in three stories: the first looks at a community that was forced to move to Guangdong ten years ago, before their village was submerged behind the Three Gorges Dam. The second story, taken from the Beijing News, looks at the logistics of the water diversion moving 345,000 people in two years. The author of the final story describes the mood of a handful of these people on the day that their community disintegrated