Households losing arable land will receive the equivalent volume of food crops and grain for fifteen years to replace the loss of crops. Fodder will be provided to local grazing associations for five years to replace lost fodder production. The LHDA compensation policy is inadequate mainly because the loss of land will not be replaced with new land. This will lead to disintegration of the subsistence economy and dependence on food and fodder from the outside. The topography of the construction region is steep and susceptible to high rates of soil erosion, and increased erosion is one of the expected effects of the construction work.
Erosion is already on the increase with the construction of the infrastructure.
So far no concrete measures have been taken to stop erosion. The existing fish resources and water ecology of the river system in the region have not been mapped, but reduced fish populations will be an inevitable result of the regulation. There is little knowledge of the river's ecology, and the fresh water life without economic value has not been studied. Thermal stratification will occur in the main reservoirs during the summer, with a warm surface layer forming above the main mass of water which will remain cold. The regulated release of cold and warm water from the four reservoirs will seriously affect downstream fish breeding, habitats and production.