With the Tibetan region’s seismic vulnerability due to tectonic plate activity, such mega-dam projects could exacerbate risks ...
In the absence of a water-sharing treaty, we are in a vulnerable position, but a dam for a dam is not in our best interest ...
But China’s Medog project on the ‘Great Bend’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo river — the upstream part of the Brahmaputra river — is ...
On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo.
Just as ties seemed to be on the mend, a US$137 billion hydropower behemoth on the Yarlung Tsangpo River threatens to muddy ...
The project has stoked concerns about displacement and environmental impact downstream in India and Bangladesh.
China plans to build the world’s largest dam on a river that originates in Tibet but flows down through India and Bangladesh ...
Beijing announced construction of a dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra weeks after a reported thaw in frosty China-India bilateral relations.
China has approved a $137,000,000,000 project to build the most powerful hydro dam - but the move has left people concerned.
The India-China conversation on water has, over the years, merely skimmed the surface, unable, and often unwilling, to wade ...
The new $137-billion dam project could risk geological disasters and impact the flow of water from China to India ...
That is enough to meet the needs of more than 300m people and more than triple the capacity of the Three Gorges dam, which is ...