China’s gargantuan appetite for economic growth will see two cities, 11 counties, 140 towns, 326 townships, 1351 villages and 24,300 hectares of farmland consumed by rising water levels by 2009. Either China’s greatest engineering success or the world’s greatest environmental disaster, the Three Gorges Dam Project will be the reservoir in which buildings, factories, industrial and toxic waste will be entombed along with the rights, memories and aspirations of over 1.3 million displaced people. Gilles Sabrie’s 175M invokes a sense of urgency in resolving the human, political and industrial dimension of development.