China begins building world's largest dam, fuelling fears in India
China begins building world's largest dam, fuelling fears in India
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China starts building world's largest dam, fuelling fears in India
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It's morbidly fascinating* how these things happen in (hot/arid) border regions around the world. Geopolitical assholery. Nothing more to add here; obviously China should not be doing this, but I believe India wouldn't be above it either. Whatever happened to diplomacy? It used to be a useful concept?
to someone who lives in a country that has almost too much water.
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China is so good for the climate hur hur hur solar panels hur hur
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what the fuck does a gigantic dam have to do with solar?
damming up giant river systems is old school proven tech that will displace petroleum and coal burning. is it ideal? Not really. So they're diversifying. Mountains of solar are better than burning coal.
apologies for linking to reddit but it's the video source.
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Again?
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Isnt this basically what India is doing to Pakistan? Correct me if im wrong plz.
Basically yes. Is it retaliation? Probably.
Doesn't really make sense for either of them though. IWT was regularly abused in the opposite way where India would allow flood water to go full downstream since the treaty only really makes provisions for droughts.
If they build a dam, all that water would rapidly collect on each country's side which even with a planned lake location, probably won't be enough to absorb it all.