 The project required resettling at least 330,000 people in central China.Critics have warned the water diversion will cause environmental damage and some villagers said officials had forced them to sign agreements to relocate.In the summer of 2013, complaints arrived from the fish farmers on the Dongping Lake, on the project's Eastern Route, in Shandong, reporting that the polluted Yangtze River water entering the lake was killing their fish.