Next Big Future August 2, 2019
The Brahmaputra River starts in China and runs through India and Bangladesh. There are serious concerns for regional stability in conflicts over the water of the Brahmaputra River. China and India are actively constructing dams and considering water diversion plans to meet domestic needs, especially for irrigation. India has plans to build hundreds of dams in the Northeast region. Bangladesh faces human security pressures that will be magnified by upstream river practices. The Brahmaputra basin has been comparatively underexamined, despite the complex geopolitics involved and potential threats to regional stability. The Brahmaputra basin covers 580,000 square kilometers across four countries. 33.6 percent of it lies within India; 50.5 percent in China; 8.1 percent in Bangladesh; and 7.8 percent in Bhutan. The river is the fifth largest in the world by flow but there is no water-sharing agreement or management accord in the basin…read more.
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