Chinese Bramhaputra Diversion Project

[tarunraju]

So the Chinese are diverting river waters from the Bramhaputra to Xinjiang through another ambitious irrigation project, a tunnel that diverts the water to the parched Xinjiang province.

Implications:

• The Bramhaputra will be parched, it will create severe water shortages in Assam. It also gives China a "flood Assam" button.
  
• China probably calculates that it could incite water-wars between India and Bangladesh, drawing the latter closer to China

Unintended Strategic Benefits to India:

• India will have no problems in sharing its inflow data with Bangladesh, and Bangladesh will not be on solid footing to claim foulplay by India. It will only draw Bangladesh closer to India
• India will be on firmer footing to re-neg Indus Water Treaty, and the International community won't do much to penalize India for its transgressions there, since that same International community won't stand up to a P5-member China. China loses more when Pak-Punjab is parched than what it gains when Assam-Bangladesh are parched.
• The more China needles India with the Bramhaputra, the more India can needle Pakistan (and CPEC) with water-diverting projects of our own, which can parch/flood Pak-Punjab at India's whim.

Discuss.

http://www.news18.com/news/india/ch...tra-water-from-tibet-to-xinjiang-1561861.html

 

[sthf]

@tarunraju From what I understand, Chinis are diverting a tributary which is entirely in Tibet and doesn't flow into India. Vast majority of water in Brahmaputr comes from Indian territory and even that is excessive resulting in flooding every now and then.
The area (North East) through which Brahmaputr flows receive heavy rainfalls and is not entirely dependent on Brahmaputr for its relatively small population of 3.5-4 crores. But I am not entirely sure of ecological disturbances because I found differing accounts.

As for the flood button, Chinis did exercise that during Doklam standoff and it is our fault for believing a single word that comes of these snake's mouths. Need to build more dams to flood proof entire North East.

 

[sorcerer]

India firms up its strategy on Brahmaputra water diversion
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...trategy-on-brahmaputra-water-diversion.56086/

 

[Villager]

India firms up its strategy on Brahmaputra water diversion
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...trategy-on-brahmaputra-water-diversion.56086/

Any update since 2013? What's the progress of our counter plans?

 

[sorcerer]

China denies report of plan to build tunnel to divert Brahmaputra waters
EIJING: China today rejected as "false and untrue" a media report that it was planning to build a 1,000- km long tunnel to divert water from the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh to the parched Xinjiang region.

Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post yesterday said that Chinese engineers were testing techniques that could be used to build the tunnel, the world's longest.

"This is untrue. This is a false report," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing when asked about the report.

China will continue to attach great importance to cross- border river cooperation, she said.


According to the report, the proposed tunnel, which would drop down from the world's highest plateau in multiple sections connected by waterfalls, would

provide water in China's largest administrative division+
, comprising vast swathes of deserts and dry grasslands.


The water would be diverted from the Yarlung Tsangpo River in southern Tibet, which turns into the river Brahmaputra once it enters India, to the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang, the report had said.


India as riparian state has

already flagged its concerns to China+
about various dams being built by it on the Brahmaputra river, which is known in China as Yarlung Tsangpo.


Beijing has been assuring India and Bangladesh that its dams were not designed to storing water.


DAMS are NOT designed to store water..according to chinese.
chinki monkeys think that the whole world is like pakistan bitch who will believe everything china says.,


https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...t-brahmaputra-waters/articleshow/61357558.cms



Cant trust china in all ways who nurtures terrorism in India in all ways.

India will have to do the best for Indian interests.

 

[Screambowl]

We can only cry seeing other's development.
This is a bad habit of ours.
Neither we do anything nor we change ourselves. We only make it a political issue.

 

[sorcerer]

Any update since 2013? What's the progress of our counter plans?

http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/threads/obor-and-cpec-developments.69883/page-95#post-1371236

 

[Chinmoy]

http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/threads/obor-and-cpec-developments.69883/page-95#post-1371236

Better merge the discussions on OBOR and CPEC thread here.