By Uttam Kumar Sinha for The Washington Post Monday, June 14, 2010-While Tibet raises a number of controversial questions, one dimension will assume increasing political significance: its water resources. The Tibetan Plateau, known to many as the “Third Pole,” is an enormous storehouse of freshwater, believed by some to be the world’s largest. It is [...]
Tibet's watershed challenge
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Filed Under conflict, drinking water, fresh water, glacier, habitat, hydropower, ice, navigation, rivers, water security, watershed, world water Tags: beijing, Brahmaputra, downstream states, governance, hydropower, indus, mekong, power and influence, river diversion, rivers, salween, Sutlej, The Tibetan Plateau, Third Pole, water management, watershed, Yangtze, Yellow
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