There are so many cities, towns and villages around the world sacrificed to the gods of hydroelectric power & industry that one could compile a whole alternate atlas of lost watery worlds

[Chiapas, Mexico; Curon Venosta, Italy; Potosi, Venezuela; Bathu Temples, India]
Fabbriche di Careggine, Italy; Geamana, Romania; Old Petrolandia, Brazil; Krokhino, Russia
Kalyazin, Russia; Sant Romà de Sau, Catalonia; Karnataka, India; Mavrovo, Macedonia
On this subject, there's a whole chapter to be written on the Three Gorges Dam — it displaced 1.4 m people, dismantled and submerged 13 cities, 140 towns and 1,350 villages, as well as 1,300 archaeological sites. Its slogan was “Forsake the small home. Support the big home.”
Photo credits:

1. Ren de Jess/ Silvia Camporesi/ JunCTionS/ hp37
2. Romano Cagnoni/ Tamas Dezso/ Eduardo Alcântara/ Grethe Ulgjell
3. dronestagram/ Acid Drones/ Getty Images/ Imir Kamberi
4. Zhang Xiao/ Getty Images
Quite apt that often the only structure temporarily resurfacing is the town's church/ mosque/ temple. Old gods vs. new gods.

Anyway, thanks for all the replies folks — sometimes twitter rocks.

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