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Dam-related displacement is the process whereby persons or groups of persons are forced or obliged to leave their homes or places of habitual residence to facilitate its construction, and these groups generally would not have crossed internationally recognized state borders. The dam may be for irrigation or hydropower development or to facilitate potable water supplies, or it can be a multipurpose dam, combining two or all of these functions (Herschy 1998).
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Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) – clean water and sanitation envisage, among other things, the attainment of the following by 2030: namely, securing universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water to all; increasing water-use efficiency, ensuring sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater and substantially reducing the number of people suffering from water...
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Research assistance by Shivam Bose, B.A. L.L.B. (2017–2022), Jindal Global Law School is acknowledged.
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Puthucherril, T.G., Peters, M.S. (2021). Dam-Related Displacement and Sustainable Development Goal 6. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Clean Water and Sanitation. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_187-1
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