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The Thirsty Dragon: The Diversion Of The Brahmaputra And The ‘Madness’ Of Guo Kai
April 21st, 2014
Via Claude Arpi, commentary from 2010 on the ambitious plan to divert the Brahmaputra to Northern China, a brainchild of Guo Kai, a retired Chinese General who worked closely with Li Ling, the author of Tibetan Waters will save China: Yesterday the Indian press commented on the official announcement by Beijing that the construction of the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon And Parched Tiger: After 50 Years Of Planning, Brahmaputra Diversion Again On The Cards
April 21st, 2014
Courtesy of Claude Arpi’s blog, a look at China’s long held interest in the Brahmaputra’s water resources: The Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) Though the project of a mega dam on the Brahmaputra (or worse, the diversion of the river) is today ‘officially’ denied by Beijing, there is no doubt that some scientists are […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Mega Diversion Plan
April 21st, 2014
Via Claude Arpi’s blog, an interesting report on China’s planned mega diversion projects: On February 17, 2013, an article appeared on the website of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission of the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources. It described in detail two phaoronic projects known as the Great Western Water Diversion and the Yellow River Waterway […]
Read more »Water Wars: The Next Clash between India and China
April 21st, 2014
Via Geopolitical Monitor, additional commentary on the tension between India and China over water resources: A China watcher named Claude Arpi has drawn attention to a recently posted article on the website of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission under China’s Ministry of Water Resources. The article speaks of the necessity and feasibility of diverting the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Environmental Crowdsourcing To Track China’s Water Quality
April 21st, 2014
Via Ethan Zuckerman, some interesting thoughts on water monitoring in China and the changing role of citizenship: This January, a few hundred employees of Alibaba, the massive online retailer and digital payments company, participated in an interesting experiment. Like many Chinese, they traveled home to celebrate the Lunar New Year. While at home, they used […]
Read more »Taming The Brahmaputra
April 20th, 2014
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at Bangladesh’s efforts to tame the Brahmaputra river: A MAN-MADE spur juts into the mighty Jamuna river—known as the Brahmaputra upstream, over the border in India—near the town of Enayetpur. The solid wall was built, expensively, to control the massive flow of the river. But erosion now eats deep […]
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