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India concerned about Chinese project
China wants to build a gigantic dam in Tibet. This also makes the neighbor India for unrest: It is feared that losing the construction of the Indian lower reaches of the river large quantities of water.
Till Fähnders, Beijing

, a similar structure in Tibet it to surpass capacity – The Three Gorges Dam, which was the most powerful dam in the world. 18. November 2010 A Chinese dam project in Tibet creating unrest in India’s neighbors. The Indians were startled by a message in the Chinese state press. It said that it had been in Tibet began last Friday on the river Yarlung Tsangpo with the construction of a dam. The Yarlung Tsangpo, often called “the highest river in the world”, flows from Tibet to India and Bangladesh and is called Brahmaputra there.

Who is in India now fears that the inflow could be stopped during the construction of the dam, as suggested, the first reports from China also. Man charged with problems for the population and the ecosystem in the lower reaches of the Indian River.
Beijing has now sought to appease. The areas along the lower reaches of the river had no fear of interference, it said in the Chinese press on Thursday. The influx is not stopped, “said Li Chaoyi, Chief Engineer of Huaneng Power Group, the news agency Xinhua. “After the operation, the water is passed through turbines and sluices, and do not affect the water level in the lower reaches,” said the engineer. In addition, some details of the project were mentioned. The total planned capacity of the Zangmu dam, to be built 325 kilometers southeast of Lhasa amounts to, 510 megawatts. The investments are subject to 7.9 billion yuan, the equivalent of 880 million euros. The first generators are to run from the year 2014.

Will China produce not only electricity but also redirect water?
The Indian press that China has “admitted” the insulation of the Yarlung Tsangpo with these reports for the first time. Indian government officials but the matter had been raised several times, most recently at a ministerial meeting in China in the past week. In the newspaper “Times of India said that the government in Delhi will monitor any developments. The background is the fear that China is not in the future with its dams in Tibet will only generate electricity but also long term plans to divert the water into the East China.

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In China, the regional water resources are distributed very unequally. For decades now, Chinese engineers are planning may entail a massive diversion project, water from the wet south to the arid north is. Some plans provided for the western route of the project also provides for removal of water from the Yarlung Tsangpo.

New giant power stations planned
The plan for the western route is currently down, however, completely on ice. But China will probably have to continue searching for a solution to its growing water shortage. So it goes in the conflict ultimately a struggle for water and the fair sharing of the vital resource. The Himalayan region is the source for some of the largest rivers of Asia. The idea that China can arbitrarily turn off the tap here provides, in India and in other neighboring countries discomfort. The concerns are not unfounded.

The Chinese government, in which sit a few skilled engineers, holds much of the power of water. Overall, the energy companies in China have installed hydropower plants with total capacity of 200,000 megawatts, more than in any other country. Especially in the southwest ever, new dams. Now, more dams will be built and where they will help economic development in Tibet. Also on the Yarlung Tsangpo should be built according to some reports, more dams. Among them is one that would even surpass its capacity to the central China’s Three Gorges Dam, currently the most powerful hydroelectric power plant in the world.