Transnational Struggles for Water and Power

               According to the text, the dam building has been a spectacular phenomenon in this 20th century. This development project means to drive a country to a modernity by provide citizen both water and electricity, but in order to do so, people in the local areas needed to move out for the sake of the development of the country, and unfortunately every times this kind of project will take place in the rural area which makes sense geographically, more over 'politically' that the rural people are not likely to have a potential to go against the state will. Later the non-governmental organizations, especially on the human rights issue appeared more active in the global stage to rescue the 'poor' local folks.
               So, can we conclude that; the developmental project such as dam will really bring the development as a whole while somebody need to sacrificed their land ? , the more dam has been building, the more rights and security of the local people has taken away?, Since, the development project is an instrument to lift the society into the modern society, will this development related to the migration of people (tourism, economic opportunity, maybe?), if not from the forcing people to migrate out of their homeland.
              But anyway, as a trend the number of the dam building project has been decreasing lately, Is this also mean the saturation of the water development or the protest that has been going on against the will of the state by the local community?...