"India fears Beijing's dams will harm Brahmaputra" from South China Morning Post

"Xinhua reported at the weekend that hydroelectrical engineers had blocked the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River on Friday, paving the way for construction of the first dam on the waterway, which originates in the Tibetan plateau and flows into India as the Brahmaputra."


"The damming of the Yarlung Zangbo has long been a source of dispute and tension between the two countries, as New Delhi fears Beijing's dams on the upper reaches would harm downstream flow and put it at a strategic disadvantage in the management of the waterway."


" "The Zangmu plant is only the beginning of a new dam-building frenzy, and plans have been made to build dams on virtually every major river and its tributaries on the Tibetan plateau," said Fan Xiao, a geologist based in Sichuan."