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Drowning the Poor. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, March 2009, Pages: 260
This book examines the ways in which water
development projects have altered the socioeconomic
structure and natural environment in southeastern
Anatolia, Turkey. Southeastern Anatolia Project
(GAP) entails the construction of 21 dams and 17
power plants on the Turkish portion of the Euphrates
and Tigris Rivers and their tributaries. The social
and environmental costs of this type of project are
very high. However, governments often ignore these
costs and continue to implement water development
projects. This model of water project serves the
organizational and regulatory power of the dominant
fraction of capital rather than either the interests
of subdominant or subordinate classes or
the “general interest” of society. The benefits
and burdens of large dams in Turkey are not
distributed equally. Rather, these local
populations are bearing a disproportionate share of
the negative social and
environmental “externalities” or consequences of the
project because of class, ethnicity, and gender
considerations, i.e., environmental injustice.
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