The implications of China’s mega-dam project | Explained
Do all riparian countries have major water infrastructure projects planned in the river basin of the Brahmaputra? What are China’s and India’s plans and how will they affect communities living alongside the river basin? How important are Tibet’s river systems to the Himalayan bioregion?
Bend region of the Medog county in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in China, has been in the drawing boards of Chinese hydrocracy for decades. The clearest signalling to this effect happened in 2020 when this project was included in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan. Its approval was granted on December 25, 2024. India, Bhutan and Bangladesh will have serious downstream implications of this 60 GW hyper-dam built upstream by China.
