Message from an Internet Army friend Rtd 3 star general Interesting info:

Message from an Internet Army friend Rtd 3 star general Interesting info: Since Yesterday Media has been agog on China Building a dam on Tsang Po or Yarlung Zangbo or Brahmaputra as it called in India. Tragedy of Indian Media is its refusal to read history or venture out of big cities to do some hard work. I know for instance that since 1992, China has been threatening to build a mega dam on Brahmaputra. For the uninitiated, Brahmaputra starts from Near Mansarovar and is mainly Snow fed river since monsoon cannot cross the high mountains. Average rainfall in Tibet is 100-350 mm, making it a virtual desert. Tsang po is a piddly river like Yamuna and water content is approximately the same without benefit of the monsoon. Brahmaputra aquires the ‘Vikraal Roop’ when it enters Arunachal Pradesh. Lohit, Dibang, Subansri, Tipaimukh, etc join Brahmaputra. I had the good fortune to cover most of north east when I was handling Hydro projects in Ministry of Power. Government had approved gigantic projects on Dibang and Subansri- over 20000 mw on Dibang and 12500 on Subansri. Of course the large submergence led to lowering of the size of the projects and both are now under construction. A cursory look at topography of the Tibet region would reveal the foolishness of the project which China wants to make. They can make a run of the river project and generate power. Storage dam for transferring water to China would require humongous amount of electricity needed to pump up water by 5000-10000 feet and a distance of 2000 km.. China keeps playing these mind games to engage India and our media falls into the trap and has been for many years. The hydrology of Tsang Po will show this. Annual precipitation in the Tsangpo River basin varies from 200 mm upstream to over 2,000 mm (In Arunachal) downstream . Most of the precipitation falls between June and September. Discharge The average annual discharge of the Tsangpo River is about 5.76 × 1010 m3 downstream. More than 70% of the annual discharge occurs between June and September, and snowmelt contributes about 25%. Tsangpo River basin passes through three climate zones: arid, semi-arid, and humid. The average elevation of the Tsangpo River is 4,621.3 m. Now any sensible person can google this and Chill, rather than carrying such news on front pages. Obviously Chinese Embassy may have issued a press note or whispered in ears of willing tools.