Nov 18, 2015
As China’s largest hydroelectric dam on the Brahmaputra, or Yarlung Tsangpo, became fully operational this month, it has once again evoked concerns in India. The $1.5 billion Zangmu hydroelectric dam has stoked a virtual paranoia over China’s resource choices and...
Apr 21, 2015
New Delhi: If all the large dams proposed by China on rivers within Tibet begin operations, the Brahmaputra river will never be the same again, warns a Canadian environmentalist who has done extensive research on the subject. “Currently, Chinese engineers are...
Sep 29, 2014
The UN Convention on International Watercourses comes into effect this week: thethirdpole.net asks experts if it can lower regional frictions over access to water Water has long been a source of tension in Asia. Ten major rivers originate on the Tibetan plateau in...
Sep 29, 2014
China is assessing necessary policies to cope with their water shortage. These policies do, however, entail detrimental international implications; something which should not go unnoticed.The northern regions of China and China’s major cities are having dire...
Aug 19, 2014
India and China signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) during the Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari’s recent five-day visit to Beijing from 26 June– 1 July. One of them was on the ‘flood data’ of the Brahmaputra River – also called the Yarlung Tsangpo in...
Aug 19, 2014
There has been a spate of reports recently about China’s grandiose river water translocation programme. All these suggest that India needs to be wary about the programme’s consequences for its Northeast, a region that relies heavily on water flowing in...
