Quotable

"We're worried. Selling vegetables can barely cover our living expenses."

51-year-old villager Lin Chuntian said as his village was relocated uphill to make way for an expanding reservoir designed to feed China's south-to-north water-diversion project. Lin and his fellow villagers had to quit growing citrus fruit - their main source of income for decades - because the orchard will be submerged as the Danjiangkou Reservoir in Hubei province begins to rise dramatically in the coming flood season. Each family was given a small plot to grow less-profitable vegetables instead.