Except Bhramaputra that has
Except Bhramaputra that has a fairly long run through China before entering India, rest of the rivers which originate in China are not suitable for daming on Chinese side of LAC ..due to there very short run with China itself and himlayan terrain, most of their water comes from glaciers in India itself.
Eg Ganges river
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Right I have discussed this before.
The rivers as mentioned before get most of their flow from their Tibetan origins. When they enter Nepal, India etc they are already cascading, yes internal sources add to the flow, but the origin gives the momentum to the river so it can reach the entire drainage basin.
lake Rakshastal (Chinese side) before it goes to form the Sultej.
Yarlung Tsangpo (Chinese side) before it becomes the Brahmaputra.
Kongque River (Chinese side) which forms the ghaghara river, a major tributary of the Ganga.
Take the
Ganga for an example it's largest tributary by discharge is the Ghaghara, average annual flow of about 2,991 m3/s (105,600 cu ft/s), which stems from China Tibet.
This is also true for the Sultaj;
More than 50% of the annual flow of Satluj river comes from snow and ice melt from China!
https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/glacier-melt-threatens-water-reserves-satluj-basin
According to experts such as Veen, Feddema,J eelani, and Stearns it is even as high as
59%.
The contributions of rain and smaller streams within India are small.
The total glacier stored water for
2026 glaciers in Satluj basin was 69 cubic kilometres.
About 56% of the total volume (37 cubic kilometres) was stored in large glaciers (with an area of above 5 sq. km) covering an area of 517 sq km.
The largest glacier found in the study area was from the Tibetan region (CHINA), which was found to occupy an area of 66.8 sq. km and contained 6.5 gigatonne (Gt) of ice. Most of the glaciers contained less than 0.1 Gt of ice.
https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/glacier-melt-threatens-water-reserves-satluj-basin
The Brahmaputra is just as reliant.
Tibetan glaciers contribute to Indian river systems, and it is very substantial. Thank you to the academics (UK) for showing me this.
Here's one such research paper on the Brahmaputra;
https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2019-211/tc-2019-211.pdf
the sustainable supply
of GS melt, which is susceptible to climate change, is the key to the local freshwater security, flood prevention and control, and hydroelectric development
The GS melt serves as an essential water supplier for the Brahmaputra river system
results of Lutz et al. (2014), which showed that GS melt
constitutes 33% of the total discharge in the Brahmaputra and that 50% of the annual melt occurs in the summer
I'm not sure what your views are regarding wars and wether you back them.
The government of Pakistan disagrees. Which is why they go to court each time India starts a dam. Are you saying you disagree with your Government and military's position?
The military hasn't said anything of late. Politicians raise it for diverting from the real problem i.e. wastage. 80% of the water is lost through poor storage.
The bottom line is, you are in no place to play water games.