China builds world's highest dam, India fears water theft(far bigger than Three Gorges)

Asia News ^ | 04/24/10

[TigerLikesRooster]

Drying out Brahmaputra? This is the recipe for full-scale war.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[Tijeras_Slim]

using special materials and techniques

From the guys who brought you bargain drywall.

[bert]

......a height of 3,260 meters......

Something seems lost in translation. I think they mean the river bed elevation is 3,260 meters above sea level. An 11,000 foot high dam is not credible

[TigerLikesRooster]

An 11,000 foot high dam is not credible

Right. It is a questionable expression.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Doesn’t inspire confidence, does it?

[hinckley buzzard]

Frickin Chinee. Should have let MacArthur nuke 'em back during Korea -- we would have been done with them.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Well to be precise.

It says “world’s highest dam”, not world’s tallest...

[section9]

India will never let that dam be built. If they think that the Chinese are using it and drying out the water system of their people, they will bombard the construction site. They cannot afford to allow the Chinese to starve their people.

India will risk war over this.

Best,

Chris

[j.argese]

I guess the Chinese are waiting for environmental impact studies before they begin construction?

[spetznaz]

India cannot let the dam be built ...but honestly, what could they really do about it if China said damn the torpedoes and went ahead with the construction? Would India really risk a war with China now? I am thoroughly pro-India, but I just do not see that happening. India could (and will) escalate it at the international level, but bombing the construction site ....not even the US would do that.

[WellyP]

Chinese and environmental concern in the same breath? I think not!

[NativeNewYorker]

I guess the Chinese are waiting for environmental impact studies before they begin construction?

Post of the day.

[autumnraine]

Russia killing off Polish government, China damming off a major water source for India, Commie Muslim US President (God, I never thought those words would even be uttered together-even if we got Kerry or Hillary, those words wouldn’t be in the same phrase) not even saying we wouldn’t shoot down Israeli planes if they attempt to take the supposedly non-existent-only want nuclear power plant until it’s a bomb- nuclear sites in Iran, North Korea torpedo a South Korean vessel with nary a word from the world about it...

Yeah, this is feeling like WW3.

[autumnraine]

Isn’t India a nuclear nation? I know Clinton sold China nuclear secrets, but are they officially online with a delivery system yet? Of course what would it matter? Russia would pony up one for them.

[WellyP]

Tibet, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia will side with India. Tibet would actually fight with India against China.

[Reeses]

Not that alarmists need any ideas but storing a large unnatural water mass at high altitude in one spot will alter Earth’s wobble, which may trigger worldwide earthquakes and climate changes. Fight Global Wobbling!

[Jack Black]

Tibet, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia

Four cub scout troops and one boy scout troop against a division of Marines. I'll take the marines.

China could kick India's ass in week, finish up with the cousins and be back in Bejing for the NBA finals.

[Scrambly]

Fight Global Wobbling!

I think my new tagline just showed up!

[Pessimist]

Not ony that, it will slow the earth’s rotation slightly, just like 3 gorges did.