Just as ties seemed to be on the mend, a US$137 billion hydropower behemoth on the Yarlung Tsangpo River threatens to muddy ...
China is planning to build a series of enormous hydropower dams. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Georgetown University professor Mark Giordano about the project and its effect on Sino-Indian relations.
The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project will generate electricity and regulate water flow. But locals are angry about government ...
If there is a disaster, a part of China would also be affected apart from downstream places in India and Bangladesh.” Engineers entrusted to build the dam would face a major obstacle in the ...
India is concerned that Chinese projects in the region could trigger flash floods or create water scarcity downstream. An Indian lawmaker previously raised concerns over China building the dam in ...
NEW DELHI: India said on Friday (Jan 3) it had raised concerns with China about a planned mega hydropower dam construction upstream in Tibet, saying it will "monitor and take necessary measures to ...
The fears around this new project are as real as the rise in earthquakes around the Three Gorges Dam and the fears emerging from the cracks ...
China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, stoking concerns about displacement of communities in Tibet and environmental impacts downstream in India ...
India's reservations to the Chinese mega-project stems from China's ability to control water flow and using it during conflicts citing the dam's unprecedented scale, added TOI. Meanwhile ...
Mark Giordano teaches geography and water conflict ... dam that's under consideration is by far the biggest. It would be a major hydropower producer, which China wants for its energy needs. RASCOE ...