River
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Diversion of the Brahmaputra’s water to the parched Yellow
river
is an idea that China does not discuss in public, because the project implies environmental devastation of India’s northeastern plains and eastern Bangladesh, and would thus be akin to a declaration of water war on India and Bangladesh.
China – the source of trans-boundary
river
flows to more countries than any other hydro-hegemon – has shifted the focus of its dam-building program from dam-saturated internal rivers to international rivers after having already built more large dams than the rest of the world combined.
By embarking on a series of mega-dams in its ethnic-minority-populated borderlands, China is seeking to appropriate
river
waters before they cross its frontiers.
Yet China remains the stumbling block, refusing to enter into a water-sharing treaty with any neighbor – much less support a regional regulatory framework – because it wants to maintain its strategic grip on trans-boundary
river
flows.
The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia’s last largely free-flowing river, with work on the first project – the giant, 4,200-megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet – to begin shortly.
Meanwhile, China’s announcement of three new dam projects on the Brahmaputra, the main
river
running through northeastern India and Bangladesh, has prompted the Indian government to advise China to “ensure that the interests of downstream states are not harmed” by the upstream works.
But he must recognize that achieving that objective is not worth selling Russia’s pro-democratic activists down the
river.
With one billion people - one sixth of all humanity -- stretched across a diverse sub-continent that ranges from the Himalayas to desert to fertile
river
valleys to great coastal cities, everything about India lies beyond generalization.
Not only will these power plants emit large quantities of greenhouse gases; they will also devastate the Sundarbans, where the Ganges and other rivers meet the Bay of Bengal in a spectacular delta of mangrove islands that is home to endangered Bengal tigers and
river
dolphins.
North’s theoretical legacy could prove vital for China’s policymakers in the coming years, because it gives them specific guidance about how to cross the
river
of rapid institutional change.
Some 2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and more than twice as many – a whopping 4.5 billion – lack safely managed sanitation, severely undermining health outcomes and fueling
river
pollution.
The data enable the system to determine how much water is available in a
river
basin, how much is being used for various purposes, and how water use has changed over time.
Through experimentation, adaptation, and evolution – a process that has been described as “crossing the
river
by feeling the stones” – China has been able to evolve a higher-order, or fifth, supply chain in political decision-making.
Moreover, the country has weaponized transborder
river
flows and used trade as an instrument of geo-economic coercion against countries that refuse to toe its line.
But can you step into the same
river
twice?
They are unfamiliar to the developed world, and their names are often difficult to pronounce: filariasis (elephantiasis), onchocerciasis
(river
blindness), schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and others, particularly intestinal worms.
These drug donations for
river
blindness, trachoma (another blinding disease), leprosy, elephantiasis, worms, and bilharzia, as well as for sleeping sickness, give hope to millions.
The increase in treatment has been spectacular – more than 500 million people in 51 countries treated for elephantiasis in 2007, and 60 million in 19 countries have been treated for
river
blindness.
In 2014, the municipal government of Flint, Michigan, stopped purchasing water from Detroit and began sourcing it from a nearby
river.
The
river
water, it turned out, corroded the city’s aging pipes; by the time it left the taps, it could contain high levels of toxic lead.
She went onto the icy Neva
river
during a bombardment, together with a baby committed to her care – my mother’s 30 year-old brother.
And it is reengineering transboundary
river
flows.
After an arduous four-day journey that included evading militias and making a perilous
river
crossing, they reached safety in neighboring Bangladesh.
After years of using its chokehold on almost every major transnational
river
system in Asia to manipulate water flows themselves, China is now withholding data on upstream flows to put pressure on downstream countries, particularly India.
A similar agreement, reached in 2015, covers the Sutlej, another flood-prone
river.
There is only one thing left to do: sit on the
river
bank and see Bitcoin’s body pass by one day.”
They explained that until recently this was a perennial
river
– one that flows throughout the year – but now the
river
stops flowing during the dry season.
Only when the annual rains begin in the summer does water reappear in the
river
bed.
Similarly, dam building and
river
diversion have become commonplace, as humans’ water consumption has risen nine-fold over the past century, to the point that mankind now uses more than half of all accessible fresh water – roughly two-thirds of it for agriculture.
The nightmare scenario is easy to imagine: Trump lays bare NATO’s fractures, including by questioning mutual defense, before selling his allies down the
river
by publicly embracing Putin.
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