Mint Explainer: A panacea for the rivers of India’s Seven Sisters resurfaces
3 months ago

Mint Explainer: A panacea for the rivers of India’s Seven Sisters resurfaces

Live Mint  

Five years ago, the Union government decided to establish a water resources management authority with sprawling ambitions for India’s northeastern states. The North East Water Management Authority will replace the Brahmaputra Board after parliamentary approvals, two officials said. The Union government established the Brahmaputra Board in Guwahati in 1980 to plan and implement measures to control floods, stem bank erosion, and handle related matters in the northeastern states and parts of West Bengal that fall under the Brahmaputra River Basin. Last year, Arunachal Pradesh’s water resources minister Mama Natung apprised the Brahmaputra Board of technical and financial constraints faced by the state in implementing projects under the flood management and border area programme.

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China's Attempt to Set Up Dam on Brahmaputra Will Be Encroachment on Rights of India: Govt
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China's Attempt to Set Up Dam on Brahmaputra Will Be Encroachment on Rights of India: Govt

News 18  

The government on Wednesday said any attempt by China to set up a hydropower station on the Brahmaputra river will act as an encroachment on the entitled rights of lower riparian states like India and Bangladesh and adversely affect the availability of water in its basin during the lean season. "Regarding the alleged plan of China to set up a …

Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplaced
4 years ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplaced

Deccan Chronicle  

Last week, the Chinese state media said the country could build up to 60 GW of hydropower capacity on a section of the Brahmaputra, citing a senior executive Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the state-owned Power Construction Corporation of China, speaking at an industry conference, said plans to dam the river were a “historic opportunity”. The supporters of this narrative believe …

‘Carefully monitoring’ Brahmaputra amid China dam plans, says India
4 years ago

‘Carefully monitoring’ Brahmaputra amid China dam plans, says India

The Hindu  

India on Thursday said it “carefully monitors all developments on the Brahmaputra ” river, even as Beijing said it was its “legitimate right” to develop hydropower projects on the lower reaches of the river. A State-run Chinese hydropower firm, POWERCHINA, is planning to build the first downstream dam on the Brahmaputra, known as the Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet, with officials …

Will Have Good Communication with India, Says China on Its Plan to Build Big Dam Over Brahmaputra River
4 years ago

Will Have Good Communication with India, Says China on Its Plan to Build Big Dam Over Brahmaputra River

News 18  

China on Thursday played down its plan to build a major dam in the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, saying there is no need to have “any anxiety over the project and Beijing will continue to have “good communication” with lower riparian states – India and Bangladesh. Yan said China will “implement hydropower exploitation in the downstream …

China promises ‘good communication’ with India ahead of dam across Brahmaputra
4 years ago

China promises ‘good communication’ with India ahead of dam across Brahmaputra

The Hindu  

China on Thursday played down its plan to build a major dam in the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, saying there is no need to have “any anxiety over the project and Beijing will continue to have “good communication” with lower riparian states - India and Bangladesh.” China’s plan to build the dam over Brahmaputra river, reportedly …

Damming Brahmaputra: With mega-dam plans, China might end up hurting itself more than India
4 years ago

Damming Brahmaputra: With mega-dam plans, China might end up hurting itself more than India

Firstpost  

The true idea of a river is not of a single stream of water between two banks, but a nervous system of watery arteries and capillaries that form the circulatory system of a living ecosystem in a particular river basin. Any event related to the Brahmaputra, even if it is only a natural one, also gets certain members of India’s …

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