China's plans for Himalayan super dam stoke fears in India


This picture taken on November 23, 2014 shows the Zangmu Hydropower Station in Gyaca county in Lhoka, or Shannan prefecture, southwest China's Tibet region. China’s plans to build a super dam in Tibet's Medog County have prompted concern in neighbouring India. – AFP pic, April 11, 2021.

CHINA is planning a mega dam in Tibet able to produce triple the electricity generated by the Three Gorges – the world’s largest power station – stoking fears among environmentalists and in neighbouring India.

The structure will span the Brahmaputra River before the waterway leaves the Himalayas and flows into India, straddling the world’s longest and deepest canyon at an altitude of more than 1,500 metres.


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