May 14, 2013
Juxtaposing India’s per capita water availability (1.170 cum/person/year) – i.e. lowering than the global water index vis-à-vis the Chinese geo-political assertiveness against India – to undertake gigantic water resource projects raises serious security alarms in the...
May 14, 2013
China has assured India that it is “essentially” engaged in a run-of-the-river project on the Brahmaputra and there is no cause for worry for downstream riparian countries. But with Beijing not keen to share details about its construction work on the...
May 14, 2013
China has responded positively to India’s concerns over Beijing’s plan to build three new dams over Brahmaputra river in Tibet by agreeing to consider improving the present mechanism on sharing of data on water flow, External Affairs Minister Salman...
May 2, 2013
China has assured India that it is developing projects on the Tibetan part of Brahmaputra river, which will not affect the river’s flow in Indian territory, Union water resources minister Harish Rawat said here on Friday. The Union Water Resources Ministry has...
May 2, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, asked for more openness on Chinese dam building. Singh said Xi assured him that he would have his proposal for a joint monitoring mechanism “looked into”. Beijing...
Apr 20, 2013
The Chinese government’s recent decision to build an array of new dams on rivers flowing to other countries seems set to roil inter-riparian relations in Asia and make it more difficult to establish rules-based water cooperation and sharing.Read...
