10-23-2006, 07:10 AM
China's river plan worries India
Indrani Bagchi
[ 23 Oct, 2006 0059hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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It will bring water from the Yalong, Dadu and Jinsha rivers, which are tributaries of the Yangtze, to the upper reaches of the Yellow river.
It is the proposed western route of this project being debated in China at present that is worrying strategists and policy-planners in the Indian government.
They believe this project, if allowed unopposed, could have immense impact on lower riparian states like India and Bangladesh.
Indian officials are preparing for detailed discussions with their Chinese counterparts over the next few months. The western diversion project is inspired by a book, How Tibet's Water Will Save China , by Li Ling.
Picking up a great deal of support among the Communist party leadership in Beijing, sources said, this book details the proposal by hydrologist Guo Kai called âShuo-tianâ (reverse flow) canal, which proposes to divert the Brahmaputra.
Recently, responding to Indian media reports that China had built a dam on the Sutlej river, the Chinese foreign ministry acknowledged the dam in Zhada county in Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) but said they did it for electricity for the local population.
In doing so, they "considered fully the impact on lower reaches".
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Indrani Bagchi
[ 23 Oct, 2006 0059hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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It will bring water from the Yalong, Dadu and Jinsha rivers, which are tributaries of the Yangtze, to the upper reaches of the Yellow river.
It is the proposed western route of this project being debated in China at present that is worrying strategists and policy-planners in the Indian government.
They believe this project, if allowed unopposed, could have immense impact on lower riparian states like India and Bangladesh.
Indian officials are preparing for detailed discussions with their Chinese counterparts over the next few months. The western diversion project is inspired by a book, How Tibet's Water Will Save China , by Li Ling.
Picking up a great deal of support among the Communist party leadership in Beijing, sources said, this book details the proposal by hydrologist Guo Kai called âShuo-tianâ (reverse flow) canal, which proposes to divert the Brahmaputra.
Recently, responding to Indian media reports that China had built a dam on the Sutlej river, the Chinese foreign ministry acknowledged the dam in Zhada county in Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) but said they did it for electricity for the local population.
In doing so, they "considered fully the impact on lower reaches".
< Previous|1|2|