China's dam dreams, India's water worries- Very serious issue.

As a lower riparian country India, New Delhi Has often taken up the issues of launching the first unit of the run-of-river hydro power plant with China,Beijing- which has repeatedly assured India that no such project is on the cards.

In April 2013,the Indian Inter-Ministerial Expert Group on Brahmaputra stated: Jia Cha could be the next big hydroelectric project on the mainstreams of Brahmaputra river.It may be followed by hydro electric projects at Lengda,Zhongda,Langzhen, where dam related peripheral infrastructural activity (including four big bridges) has gathered speed.

More frightening is the possibility of a mega-dam on the Great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo. the IMEG warned: China is carrying out series of cascading run-of-river projects in the middle reaches of Brahmaputra, the same may be replicated in the Great Bend Area as a viable alternative to a single mega project.

Zangmu, the only hydro power plant on the Yarlung Tsangpo, once completed, would probably be acceptable to India. But China plans to have a cascade of five other dams along the river Brahmaputra.