China to build a major dam on Brahmaputra River:

Question 1

Where the dam is proposed?

Answer 1

on Brahmaputra River in Tibet

Question 2

What are India’s concerns?

Answer 2

• there are no bilateral or multilateral treaties on the water.
• china might threaten to reduce river flows into India.
• Dams, canals, irrigation systems can turn water into a political weapon
• Denial of hydrological data becomes critical when the flow in the river is very high.
• Diversion of the Brahmaputra by china will devastate India’s northeastern plains and Bangladesh, either with floods or reduced water flow.

Question 3

What is meaning of co-riparian?

Answer 3

Any one especially a country or a person,having rights to the use of river jointly with another.