India plans mega dam in Arunachal Pradesh, with eye on China’s hydropower station in Tibet

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could help absorb sudden water releases from China’s dam and protect locals downstream from flooding, or even replenish the Siang’s flow in case China holds back water during a drought.

Our home, farmland and ancestral land – all will be submerged, which is why I oppose this dam....estimated that 27 villages in the Upper Siang and Siang districts risk being submerged and thousands of people could be uprooted

Experts say building dams in this ecologically fragile and seismically active zone could have devastating consequences for the Himalayan ecosystem and its people

Concerns are, however, not just limited to displacement or loss of livelihoods. The environmental impact from such a large dam in one of India’s most biodiverse regions could be consequential too

worries India and China are engaged in a race to build these dams more as “strategic sovereignty markers” in remote borderlands than for electricity generation or to achieve their respective net-zero emission goals.

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