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China floodwater diversions to populated areas unleash wave of online anger

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"When the flood is too large and exceeds the defence capacity of the embankment, it becomes an inevitable need for flood control to use flood storage areas," the official China Water Resources News said in a post on Weibo on Aug. 1.

"This is also for the sake of protecting the overall situation. You have to sacrifice one part for the sake of the bigger whole."

As of 8:00 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Friday, Hebei had relocated more than 1.54 million people, including 961,200 from flood storage areas, state media reported on Saturday.

Residents in flood storage areas "have given up their homes to protect everyone", and will be compensated according to the law, said a department of the Ministry of Water Resource.

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