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China s New Dam Project Could Dwarf the Three Gorges Dam
China s new dam project is going to be a massive engineering marvel over a politically important river. Yarlung Tsangpo River near a Tibetan village loonger/iStock
Plans for a series of huge dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo River (the upper part of the river which becomes the Brahmaputra in India) have recently been announced by China. Built as part of China s hopes to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, the dams could potentially dwarf the huge Three-Gorges Dam.
However, the river in question is important for several countries along its course and supports some of the most important ecosystems in Asia. Realizing this ambitious, and some might say controversial, project is going to require some very savvy diplomacy, and careful planning indeed.
Dam over Yarlung Zangbo
The Brahmaputra, a trans-boundary river flows within the Brahmaputra Sub-basin, which is part of the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin. Both the rivers discharge into the Bay of Bengal. The Brahmaputra and its major tributaries have a catchment area of 580000 sq. km according to a World Bank report. About 50% of the basin lies within the Chinese territory and 33.6 % lies within the Indian territory. The rest lies in Bhutan and Bangladesh. There are over eight sub-sub basins within Indian, Bhutan territories contributing a significant amount of water to the river. The surface run-off in the Brahmaputra varies from 3,244 m3/s in March (mostly due o glacial melt) to 44,752 m3 /s in July (due to the Indian Monsoon). The rain-fall within these eight sub-basins varies from 1000 to 4000 mm/year while the tributaries of Tsangpo River (Yarlung Zangbo, River Brahmaputra as it is known in Tibet), lying within the Tibetan plateau receives an annual rain-fall about 100-400 mm/y. Th
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