Tibet's largest water project completes damming

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China.org.cn, October 27, 2011

Tibet's largest water project completes damming - China.org.cn


A major water control project in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region blocked the river stream on Oct. 26, marking the commencement of the dam's main construction. Comprised of a reservoir and a power station, the project costs 4.57 billion yuan and is designed to irrigate 435.2 square kilometers and generate 599 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually.[Photo/Xinhua]











 

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Good show.

Bangladesh will become a desert!

Remember the Mekong?

It will be such fun!

All will love China!
 

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Didn't our great Mumble Mumble Singh say that there is nothing to worry about China damming the Brahmputra. May be he was duped by Chinese assurances.
 

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1st natural gas supply station put into operation in Tibet


Photo taken on Oct. 26, 2011 shows the first natural gas supply station in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), China's largest oil and gas producer, has put the first natural gas supply station into operation here Wednesday. The station with the other two under-construction ones are expected to annually supply 30 million cubic meters of natural gas.






Photo taken on Oct. 26, 2011 shows lorries carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), China's largest oil and gas producer, has put the first natural gas supply station into operation here Wednesday. The station with the other two under-construction ones are expected to annually supply 30 million cubic meters of natural gas

 

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Why are you so keen to show how China will be disliked for drying up countries.

India will still manage, but what about poor Bangladeshis who love you?

And don't forget that the Bangladeshis are getting to be fundamentalist to the core.

They will blow all this up and then...........

Never underestimate fundamentalist Islam!
 

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Nah, u know more than us as Bangladeshi's problem is not being dried up, instead they've got flooding with too much water. Besides, main source of the Brahmaputra, is not originated from Tibet China

The South Asian country of Bangladesh is prone to the natural disaster of flooding due to being situated on the Ganges Delta and the many tributaries flowing into the Bay of Bengal. The coastal flooding twinned with the bursting of Bangladesh's river banks is common and severely affects the landscape and Bangladeshi society. 75% of Bangladesh is less than 10m above sea level and 80% is flood plain, therefore rendering Bangladesh a nation very much at risk of further widespread damage despite its development. Whilst more permanent defences, strengthened with reinforced concrete, are being built, many embankments are composed purely of soil and turf and made by local farmers. Flooding normally occurs during the monsoon season from June to September during the monsoon. The convectional rainfall of the monsoon is added to by relief rainfall caused by the Himalayas. Melt-water from the Himalayas is also a significant input and flood every year.

Each year in Bangladesh about 26,000 km2, (around 18%) of the country is flooded, killing over 5,000 people and destroying 7 million homes. During severe floods the affected area may exceed 75% of the country, as was seen in 1998. This volume is 95% of the total annual inflow. By comparison, only about 187,000 million m3, of streamflow is generated by rainfall inside the country during the same period. The floods have caused devastation in Bangladesh throughout history, especially during the years 1966, 1987, 1998 and 1988. The 2007 South Asian floods also affected a large portion of Bangladesh.
so, Bangladesh will continue to love China, so long as they dont get a fair deal from India
 

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Nah, u know more than us as Bangladeshi's problem is not being dried up, instead they've got flooding with too much water. Besides, main source of the Brahmaputra, is not originated from Tibet China



so, Bangladesh will continue to love China, so long as they dont get a fair deal from India
Bangladesh's flooding is not because of excess water from the rivers.

If it were so, they would not have clamoured for the Teesta waters.

It is the Monsoons that floods Bangladesh.

Drying up the Brahmaputra and then the Jamuna (as it is called in BD) is shoving a bamboo up their softer side of the anatomy!

Good for you. Dry the Mekong and now dry the B'putra and the Jamuna,

We will all love you!
 

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Dams in China Turn the Mekong Into a River of Discord
Rivers know no borders, but dams do


SINGAPORE: Back in 1986, when China began building the first of a series of dams on the Mekong River, hardly anyone in the downstream countries of Southeast Asia paid attention. But today, as China races to finish the fourth dam for generating electricity on the upper reaches of Southeast Asia's biggest river, concerns about possible environmental impacts in the region are rising fast. Moreover, fear about antagonizing China and Southeast Asia's internecine dispute might make any concerted move unlikely.

The sheer scale of China's engineering to harness the power of the Mekong and change its natural flow is setting off alarm bells, especially in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, the four countries of the lower Mekong basin where more than 60 million people depend on the river for food, water and transportation.

A report in May by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) warned that China's plan for a cascade of eight dams on the Mekong, which it calls the Lancang Jiang, might pose "a considerable threat" to the river and its natural riches. In June, Thailand's prime minister was handed a petition calling for a halt to dam building. It was signed by over 11,000 people, many of them subsistence farmers and fishermen who live along the river's mainstream and its many tributaries.

Some analysts say that if the worst fears of critics are realized, relations between China and its neighbors in mainland Southeast Asia will be severely damaged. But mindful of the growing power and influence of China, Southeast Asian governments have muffled their concern. Meanwhile, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand have put forward plans to dam their sections of the Mekong mainstream, prompting Vietnam to object and undermining the local environmentalists' case against China.

Although the Mekong is widely regarded as a Southeast Asian river, its source is in the glaciers high in Tibet. Nearly half of the 4,880 kilometer river flows through China's Yunnan province before it reaches Southeast Asia. Since there is no international treaty governing use of trans-boundary rivers, China is in a dominant position, controlling the Mekong's headwater. It has the right to develop its section of the river as it sees fit, and has done so without consulting its neighbors, let alone seeking their approval.

The Mekong River basin drains water from an area of 795,000 square kilometers. The Mekong River Commission (MRC), an inter-governmental agency formed in 1995 by the four lower basin countries estimates that the sustainable hydropower potential of the lower basin alone is a massive 30,000 megawatts. But it also says that there are major challenges in balancing the benefits of clean electricity, water storage and flood control from the dams against negative impacts. These include population displacement, obstruction to fish movements up and down the river, and changes in water and sediment flow.

The cascade of dams being constructed in Yunnan will generate over 15,500 megawatts of electricity for cities and industries, helping to replace polluting fossil fuels, particularly coal and oil. The eight Yunnan dams will produce about the same amount of electricity as 30 big coal-burning plants.

The fourth of China's Mekong dams, at Xiaowan, is due to be completed by 2012 at a cost of nearly US$4 billion. Rising 292 meters, the dam wall will be the world's tallest. Its reservoir will hold 15 billion cubic meters of water, more than five times the combined capacity of the first three Chinese dams. Since the end of 2008, when the river diversion channel of the Xiaowan hydropower dam was closed by Chinese engineers, the reservoir has been filling with water, paving the way to start the first electricity generating turbine in September. When full, the reservoir will cover an area of over 190 square kilometers. With a capacity to generate 4,200 megawatts of electricity, Xiaowan will be the largest dam so far on the Mekong.

However, by 2014, China plans to finish another dam below the Xiaowan at Nuozhadu. It will not be quite as high but will impound even more water, nearly 23 billion cubic meters, and generate 5,000 megawatts of power.

Chinese officials have assured Southeast Asia that the Yunnan dams will have a positive environmental impact. They say that by holding some water back in the wet season, the dams will help control flooding and river bank erosion downstream. Conversely, releases from the hydropower reservoirs to generate power in the summer will help ease water shortages in the lower Mekong during the dry season.

However, the UNEP-AIT report said that Cambodia's great central lake Tonle Sap, the nursery of the lower Mekong's fish stocks, and Vietnam's Mekong Delta, its rice bowl, were particularly at risk from changes to the river's unique cycle of flood and drought. The Cambodian lake is linked to the Mekong by the Tonle Sap River. Scientists are concerned that reductions in the Mekong's natural floodwater flow will cause falls in the lake's water level and fish stocks, already under pressure from over-harvesting and pollution.

Vietnam worries that dwindling water volumes will aggravate the problem of sea water intrusion and salination in the low-lying Mekong Delta, where climate change and sea level rise threaten to inundate large areas of productive farm land and displace millions of people by the end of this century.

The MRC says it has been discussing technical cooperation with Chinese experts to assess downstream river changes caused by hydropower development. But China has refused to join the MRC or to agree to observe its resource management guidelines, preferring to remain a "dialogue partner". Full membership would intensify scrutiny of its dam plans by downstream Southeast Asian states and increase pressure on Beijing, which controls 21 per cent of the water, to take their interests into account.

While China's program to dam the Mekong is moving ahead on schedule, proposals to do the same on the Southeast Asian section of the river have been put on hold. Before the global credit crisis and economic slow-down hit Asia's export-oriented economies with full force this year, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand had announced plans to follow China's lead on the upper Mekong by building a series of dams on the mainstream of the river in the lower basin. There are now over 3,200 megawatts of electricity being generated on Mekong tributaries in Laos. But that too is being hurt by the crisis as Thailand, the main consumer of electricity in the lower Mekong, has announced that because of the global economic downturn, it expects to cut substantially the amount of power it imports from Laos.

The slowdown, however, provides a breathing space for Southeast Asian countries to assess how the Mekong mainstream dam projects will affect the interests of people in the river basin. But without China's full participation, no Mekong management plan can be effective.

Beijing is intent on forging closer economic integration with mainland Southeast Asia through trade, investment, communication, transport and energy cooperation with its neighbors in the Greater Mekong Subregion. But this strategy may backfire if the region concludes that Chinese dams are having an adverse impact on their future development prospects.

Michael Richardson is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore.
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Typical Chinese homilies and lies!
 

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Big talk? We r doing things when u r dreaming . Get real .LOL
Well you must be dreaming better.

Opium still seems to permeate in your genes!

It is time you concentrate on water (the theme of this thread) and let it dilute the opium fumes!
 
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Yeah! We are dreaming of human rights LOL!
So you're saying we shouldn't build this dam, which by the way will benefit a lot of the people you claim to like, because of what happened more that 20 years ago? On that reasoning russia should never build anothe nuclear plant after chenoble... Prove that it'll hurt Bangladesh, not with some ancient wrong which were learned from. You like making China sound like a monster which terrorizes Asia when infact China benefits the whole of Asia, Japan, INDIA, the Koreas, everyone. Its not our fault our growth demands infrastructure, don't blame us cause we're building a powerful nation.

You don't here us pointing out every flaw in India, which are far more than China's by the way. We don't hate on everything India accomplishes, we'd appreciate the same, not this blind dislike.
 
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This should just be the beginning. Lots of dams will be built in due course, starting with the run-of-othe-river type that does not require a reservior for holding water. The 6-7 major rivers that originate in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau are good cadidates for massive build-up. China is in a strong position in that it controls the origins of virtually all the major waterways that nourish East and Southeast Asia. Water is a precious resource that China must use to her fullest advantage. The time is now.
 

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So you're saying we shouldn't build this dam, which by the way will benefit a lot of the people you claim to like, because of what happened more that 20 years ago? On that reasoning russia should never build anothe nuclear plant after chenoble... Prove that it'll hurt Bangladesh, not with some ancient wrong which were learned from. You like making China sound like a monster which terrorizes Asia when infact China benefits the whole of Asia, Japan, INDIA, the Koreas, everyone. Its not our fault our growth demands infrastructure, don't blame us cause we're building a powerful nation.

You don't here us pointing out every flaw in India, which are far more than China's by the way. We don't hate on everything India accomplishes, we'd appreciate the same, not this blind dislike.
:confused:

I was talking about the great situation of human rights in your country, that's it !
 

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