Posted on 04/24/2010 8:30:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China builds world's highest dam, India fears water theft(several times bigger than Three Gorges)
04/24/2010 12:36
CHINA - INDIA
China builds world's highest dam, India fears water theft
The dam will rise to 3,260 meters, on Yarlung Zangbo River (Brahmaputra, for Indians) using special materials and techniques. But India notes that the river is essential to the lives of millions of people and calls for assurances that Beijing does not seem to want to give. For that zone a war was fought that has never officially ended.
Beijing (AsiaNews / Agencies) - China has admitted that it is building a dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River. The river originates in Tibet, but then flows into India where it is called Brahmaputra and is a major water source for millions of people. Moreover, the dam will be built in the area near the border disputed between the two countries.
China outlined the project this month, in a private meeting with Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna. The dam will be built in Zangmu at a height of 3,260 meters, in the Shannan Prefecture in Tibet and nearby four other dams will also be built in the valley between Jiacha and Sangro counties. Official sources said yesterday that the overall capacity of the dams will be "several times" more than the gigantic Three Gorges Dam. Because of its altitude, the area is often subjected to extreme weather conditions and special materials and technologies will be used, developed by the Chinese space agency. For example special cement made at the laboratories of the Xichang satellite launch Centre.
Beijing plans to draw from the Dangmu dam no less than 500 megawatts of electricity to meet the growing demand for Guangdong and Hong Kong and sell it to neighbouring countries like Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh, Laos and Cambodia.
India is however very worried about the plan, fearing a decrease in the flow of the river water in India and the destruction of the Himalayas ecosystem. Above all the agriculture and industry of the north-eastern states of India depend heavily on the Brahmaputra river.
In addition, with this project China will directly control more than 90 thousand square meters of land the sovereignty of which is disputed between India and China, who fought a war that has never formally ended and who still station armed forces in the area. China responds that the dam will allow it to develop clean energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions resulting from coal fired power plants.
Experts say that, however, Beijing has not responded to Indian concerns over the decline of the Brahmaputra river. Indian sources have observed that even if the dam is located in Chinese territory, however, international law provides that the work should not diminish the course of the river. Similarly, Beijing has never responded to the concerns of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia over the Chinese dams on the Mekong River in Yunnan.
India appears on the brink of raising its concerns at an international level.
From the guys who brought you bargain drywall.
......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
Right. It is a questionable expression.
Doesn’t inspire confidence, does it?
Well to be precise.
It says “world’s highest dam”, not world’s tallest...
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
I guess the Chinese are waiting for environmental impact studies before they begin construction?
Chinese and environmental concern in the same breath? I think not!
Post of the day.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Fight Global Wobbling!
I think my new tagline just showed up!
Not ony that, it will slow the earth’s rotation slightly, just like 3 gorges did.
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