中, 티베트 브라마푸트라강에 대규모 수력 댐 건설…인도 홍수 우려 China builds hydroelectric dam on Brahmaputra in Tibet, India fears flash floods
Hydroelectric dam on Brahmaputra in Tibet 중국이 티벳에 건설한 수력발전 댐
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China builds first hydropower dam on Brahmaputra in Tibet
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중국이 티베트 남서부의 브라마푸트라강에 대규모 수력발전 댐을 건설했다고 23일 발표했다.
중국이 티베트 남서부의 브라마푸트라강에 대규모 수력발전 댐을 건설했다. 브라마푸트라강(얄룽창포)은 방글라데시와 인도 북동부로 흐르는 강이다.
이 때문에 인도와 방글라데시에서 홍수와 산사태 발생 가능성에 대한 우려가 커지고 있다고 인도 이코노믹타임스가 24일 보도했다.
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China builds hydroelectric dam on
Brahmaputra in Tibet, India fears flash
floods
Saibal Dasgupta India has repeatedly expressed concern about the dangers of damming the Brahmaputra, one of the strongest Himalayan rivers, in upstream areas in Tibet. China has routinely responded saying its plans were restricted to run-off-the-river dams focussed on generating electricity, which posed little danger. Indian officials have so far been satisfied by Beijing's explanations, not realizing China was actually building a massive project that would affect the river's flow into Arunachal Pradesh and other parts of the northeastern region of India, sources said. Announcing that Tibet's largest hydropower station had become partly operational on Sunday, Beijing said it would be useful in "harnessing the rich water resources of the Yarlung Zangbo river to empower the development of the electricity-strapped region". The first section of the $1.5 billion Zangmu Hydropower Station, which is over 3,300m above sea level on the "roof of the world", went into operation Sunday afternoon. Five other sections are due for completion no later than next year, it said. The Chinese government on Sunday described it as a "huge project, which straddles the middle reaches of the roaring Yarlung Zangbo river, (which) will have power capacity of 510,000kW after its four-year construction." The official media said the project is designed to generate 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. Official statistics showed that Tibet's per capita electricity consumption in 2013 was slightly over 1,000 kilowatt-hours, less than one third of the average in China, Xinhua news agency said Zangmu is one of the five projects planned on the Brahmaputra to generate a total of 2,000MW of hydro power. Environmentalists opposed to the project have asked why China wants to unsettle fragile ecology in the Tibetan region which is little need for additional electricity because of low industrialization. India recently said it will commission extensive studies to study the impact of dam building and behavioral changes in the Brahmaputra. But experts ask if such delayed studies would be useful in the face of Chinese plans to build four more dams on the river. timesofindia.indiatimes
BEIJING: China has announced that it has completed a major hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra, called Yarlung Zangbo, in Tibet. The dam is bound to enhance fears in India and Bangladesh about flash floods and related risks like landslides involving lives of millions of people downstream.
Tibetan prayer flags along the Yarlung Zangbo river in central Tibet. (Getty Images photo)
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