Residents of Guanmenyan Village in Danjiangkou City, central China's Hubei Province, leave their former residence here by bus for a new location on August 20, 2009. Danjiangkou Reservoir is a water control pivot along the middle route of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Some people living around the Danjiangkou Reservoir will have to be relocated. According to the relocation plan, more than 320,000 people in Henan and neighboring Hubei Province will move away from the Danjiangkou Reservoir. Hubei authorities plan to relocate 12,000 people this year. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project, one of the world's largest water project, is an effort to divert water from China's rainy south to its dry north. It has three routes: the eastern, middle and western ones. [Xinhua]

Residents of the Guanmenyan Village in Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province, load their belongings onto a truck as they prepare to leave their former residence for a new location on August 20, 2009. [Xinhua]