Why China's hold on Brahmaputra bothers India

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Why China's hold on Brahmaputra bothers India
TNN | Updated: Oct 5, 2016, 10.27 AM IST

NEW DELHI: Within days of India announcing plans to assert its right within the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, China said it was building as dam on a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo, as Brahmaputra is known inTibet. This will be its 'most expensive hydel project'. Here's all about the project, the tributary and why India worries about the project.

Why India sees red

1. China's dam building overdrive is a concern because there are no bilateral or multilateral treaties on the water
2. China believes dam building on the Brahmaputra helps it assert claim over Arunachal Pradesh
3. India believes China's projects in the Tibetan plateau threaten to reduce river flows into India
4. Dams, canals, irrigation systems can turn water into a political weapon to be wielded in war, or during peace to signal annoyance with a co-riparian state
5. Denial of hydrological data becomes critical when the flow in the river is very high
6. China is contemplating northward re-routing of the Yarlung Zangbo
7. Diversion of the Brahmaputra is an idea China does not discuss in public, because it implies devastating India's northeastern plains and Bangladesh, either with floods or reduced water flow
8. In 2013, India complained to China about its hydro projects on the Brahmaputra
9. India and China signed two pacts in 2008 and 2010 which facilitated India with data on water levels and rainfall twice a day from June 1 to October 15 at three hydrological stations in Tibet
10. In 2001, an artifical dam in Tibet collapsed and killed 26 people and damaged property of Rs 140 crore along the river Siang in Arunachal Pradesh

The Lalho project

• The Lalho project on the Xiabuqu River in Xigaze (close to Sikkim) is under way at an investment of $740 million. Xigaze is a few hours from the junction of Bhutan and Sikkim. It is also the city from where China intends to extend its railway towards Nepal
• China's first dam on the main upper reaches of the Brahmaputra was built at Zangmu in 2010
• Three more dams at Dagu, Jiacha, and Jeixu (small-scale projects) are under construction
• In 2015, China inaugurated the Zam Hydropower Station, largest in Tibet, the highest dam built on Brahmaputra

The Tributary that was blocked

• The Xiabuqu river, 195-km long, flows from Bainang in Tibet northwards and joins the Yarlung Zangbo near the region calledXigaze, also known as Shigatse
• This tributary was blocked for the Lalho hydel project that launched in June 2014, scheduled to be completed in 2019
• The river's mean discharge is 25.8 cubic metres per second (cumecs), less than 0.15 per cent of the Brahmaputra's mean discharge
  when it enters India
• Its reservoir was designed to store up to 295 cumecs and it will irrigate 30,000 hactares, control floods and generate power

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...aputra-bothers-India/articleshow/54688670.cms

 

[艹艹艹]

In the vast majority of people China is to support the development of the Brahmaputra river.
India's friends have said that this will not affect the northeast of India.

 

[kobiraaz]

From the Map, If Xiabuqu is blocked, does it affect Bangladesh? @Bilal9 I understand the three dams will have negative impact on Mymensingh Jamalpur area! But They won't be that devastating comparing to the dam on Farakka.

I guess India shouldnt speak a word here, After Turning Northern Bangladesh into a semi desert by Farakka

 

[艹艹艹]

From the Map, If Xiabuqu is blocked, does it affect Bangladesh? @Bilal9

I guess India shouldnt speak a word here, After Turning Northern Bangladesh into a semi desert by Farakka

You should worry about the pollution problem in Ganges RIver.

 

[kobiraaz]

You should worry about the pollution problem in Ganges RIver.

We should worry about Both. All the countries must abide by international laws and they do not have the right to do anything that negatively affect other countries.

 

[Bilal9]

From the Map, If Xiabuqu is blocked, does it affect Bangladesh? @Bilal9

I guess India shouldnt speak a word here, After Turning Northern Bangladesh into a semi desert by Farakka

Why yes - I believe it does. Upper riparian countries need to be fair to lower riparian countries. This case can be settled in International court in the Hague just like how Bangladesh settled its coastal boundary region dispute with India and Myanmar.

 

[maximuswarrior]

India started with water terrorism. Now it will have to reap what it has sown.

 

[PakSword]

This is some humiliation!

 

[Hammad Arshad Qureshi]

NEW DELHI: Within days of India announcing plans to assert its right within the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, China said it was building a dam on a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo, as Brahmaputra is known in Tibet. This will be its 'most expensive hydel project'. Here's all about the project, the tributary and why India worries about the project.

1. China's dam building overdrive is a concern because there are no bilateral or multilateral treaties on the water
2. China believes dam building on the Brahmaputra helps it assert claim over Arunachal Pradesh
3. India believes China's projects in the Tibetan plateau threaten to reduce river flows into India
4. Dams, canals, irrigation systems can turn water into a political weapon to be wielded in war, or during peace to signal annoyance with a co-riparian state
5. Denial of hydrological data becomes critical when the flow in the river is very high
6. China is contemplating northward re-routing of the Yarlung Zangbo
7. Diversion of the Brahmaputra is an idea China does not discuss in public, because it implies devastating India's northeastern plains and Bangladesh, either with floods or reduced water flow
8. In 2013, India complained to China about its hydro projects on the Brahmaputra
9. India and China signed two pacts in 2008 and 2010 which facilitated India with data on water levels and rainfall twice a day from June 1 to October 15 at three hydrological stations in Tibet
10. In 2001, an artifical dam in Tibet collapsed and killed 26 people and damaged property of Rs 140 crore along the river Siang in Arunachal Pradesh
http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Why...aputra-bothers-India/articleshow/54688670.cms

 

[gayMo]

It is not humiliation. It is tearing off the Chinese mask. India never harmed China like Pak is harming India, so it just shows that China is a juggernaut for a few decades after which that too shall pass.

 

[maximuswarrior]

You reap what you sow. India thought it could bully Pakistan by resorting to water terrorism. Time for India to face the music. Go China.

 

[艹艹艹]

It is not humiliation. It is tearing off the Chinese mask. India never harmed China like Pak is harming India, so it just shows that China is a juggernaut for a few decades after which that too shall pass.

Chinese without wearing masks, China before has been in the development of the Yarlung Zangbo River

 

[coffee_cup]

India = talk talk talk...

China = work work work ...

The basic difference between a real super power and a delusional one!

 

[zootinali]

we will build more dams in arunachal in addition to under construction one, if china diverts water. BD will suffer.

 

[艹艹艹]

we will build more dams in arunachal in addition to under construction one, if china diverts water. BD will suffer.

Ganges RIver water pollution problem has seriously affected the life of the lower reaches of the people