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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 […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Large and Mysterious Dam Project Is Alarming Neighbors and Experts
January 27th, 2025
Via the New York Times, a report on China’s planned hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, which is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, which could affect nearby countries. Step aside, Three Gorges Dam. China’s latest colossal infrastructure project, if completed, will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: India’s Response to World’s Largest Dam in China Faces Local Opposition
January 9th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at India’s response to world’s largest dam in China: Strong protests have erupted in the Indian border state of Arunachal Pradesh against a proposed “multi-purpose project” envisioned as the country’s response to China’s plan to construct the world’s largest dam in Tibet on the same river. India plans to build […]
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