China’s Planned Dam Will Make Brahmaputra Ecosystem Fragile : Himanta Sarma

way2barak 2 January: China’s plan to build a mega dam on the Brahmaputra could make the entire ecosystem that depends on the river fragile, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma warned on Wednesday, adding that India has already communicated its concern to Beijing.

Last week, the Chinese government approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam, which can generate 60,000 MW of power, on the Yarlung Tsangpo River – the Chinese name for the Brahmaputra. The dam will span a gorge in the Himalayas in eastern Tibet, where the Brahmaputra River makes a U-turn to flow into Arunachal.