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Floating houses are dwelling places which can horizontally or vertically move and are designed for specific aims. Floating houses which have been built in many ocean, sea, lake, and streams of the world are used as rural and urban settlements. Human factors such as rapid urbanization and economic activities shine out in floating houses to be popular besides natural factors like eustacy and floods which threaten the locations. Moreover, since floating houses offer a living option to be with nature free from the cities, they have gradually attracted attention by the tourism sector and environmentalists. USA, UK, Netherlands, Cambodia, and the Philippines are the countries where floating houses become popular. Floating houses which emerge as dalyan on Turkey's sea and lakes with aqua fishing have become widespread as from 2007. Floating houses in our country are temporary settlements because of being have the functions of dalyans. Keban Dam Lake is one of the places where the number of floating houses gradually increases in recent years. These settlements are utilized as the shelter of workers of fish farms and also logistics warehouse that meets the needs of fishing activities. The chief goal of our study was to review the rural settlement type that has attracted attention day by day in Turkey and the world by its examples in Keban dam lake. In this sense, the related fact was scrutinized by similarity and differences from global to local. As is understood by the examples world-wide, floating houses which are used by quite a change purposes have become widespread based on aquafishing activities in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]