Dam displacement estimates shift upward tenfold once construction is safely underway

Evidence

But the megadams are transients, temporary sojourners in the long life of the river. All too often, they silt up, spread salination, poison the soil. They are also steeped in well-timed deceits: in 1985, the World Bank estimated the Sardar Sarovar project would displace 33,000 people; eight years later, with the dam safely underway, the Bank reestimated the displaced at 320,000. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 483

Categorization

• QUESTION: This tenfold estimate revision (33,000 to 320,000) is worth verifying and using as a concrete teaching example in the polyad.
• XREF: Builds on later chapter claims about Legal delay eroding pollution victims’ claims and technocratic report genres masking megadam harm.