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What Does the World’s Largest Dam Mean For India and Bangladesh Downstream?
April 18th, 2025
Via The Conversation, a look at China’s plans to build the world’s largest dam – but what does this mean for India and Bangladesh downstream? China recently approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world’s largest power plant – […]
Read more »The Gorge Between China and India on Hydropolitics
April 2nd, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on how miscommunication and misunderstood geography are confounding discussions about China’s planned dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo gorge: On Christmas Eve 2024, the Chinese government announced that it had approved the world’s largest – and, at $137 billion, most expensive – hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in the Eastern Himalaya, […]
Read more »What’s Driving China’s Controversial Mega-Dam in Tibet?
February 14th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, commentary on how – while the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India – from China’s perspective it is mostly motivated by domestic factors: On December 25, 2024, Chinese state media Xinhua reported that the country had officially approved the construction of what will be the […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Water Grid Shapes Its Future
February 4th, 2025
Via The Asia Times, a report on how China’s continued focus on engineering projects to redistribute water can lead to water shortages downstream from diversion projects: Much attention has focused on China’s recent approval of a massive hydropower dam but less has been said about the next crucial step in the country’s water management strategy […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: ‘Dam for a Dam’ – China and India’s Dam War In Himalayas
January 30th, 2025
Via The Week, a look at Delhi’s response to Beijing’s plans for a huge dam in Tibet? Build a huge dam of its own right nearby India is building a giant hydropower dam near the Siang river to counter a huge Chinese dam further north. But this latest move in a tit-for-tat saga of water […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Super-Dam A ‘Disaster Waiting To Happen’
January 29th, 2025
Impassioned commentary from Brahma Chellaney on the China’s newly proposed super dam: By embarking on building a super-dam, the largest ever conceived, in the seismically active Sino-Indian border region, China is potentially creating a ticking water bomb for millions of people living downstream in India and Bangladesh. The super-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river, better […]
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