Hydroelectric dams destroy communities  What applies to the environment, also applies to the human communities. Building dams often involves relocating people and removing them from their ancestral homelands. For example, China’s Three Gorges Dam involved relocating 1.3 million people, [1] involved severe human rights abuses [2] and has had dire social consequences. [3]  [1] CBS News, ‘China Completes Three Gorges Dam’, 2009  [2] International Rivers, Human Rights dammed of at Three Gorges, 2003  [3] New York Times, ‘Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs’, 2007