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Why Is China Reviving Its Plan to Build Dams on the Brahmaputra Now? While Western and Indian defence analysts have assumed that the move is to keep India in its place , there could be a more plausible reason. The Brahmaputra river. Photo: Flickr/lensnmatter CC BY 2.0 World10/Mar/2021 Even as Chinese and Indian troops are disengaging rapidly in Ladakh, Beijing has taken a decision that, if implemented will, one day, do a hundred times more damage to India than a war in Ladakh can do. This is to lift a decade-long embargo on hydropower âprojects in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) river in Tibet. This anodyne declaration will revive the most dangerous, and unnecessary hydroelectric project ever contemplated by any government on this planet. ....
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 ....