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Medog Dam
August 5 , 2025
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- China approved a 60-gigawatt hydropower project at the Great Bend in Medog County in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
- The river originates in Tibet as Yarlung Zangbo and flows through India, Bhutan and Bangladesh before draining into the Bay of Bengal.
- All four riparian countries have planned water infrastructure projects, including dams, embankments, irrigation systems and barrages.
- China and India lack a bilateral river-sharing treaty despite having the Expert Level Mechanism (ELM) since 2006 for hydrological data sharing.
- The Brahmaputra basin lies in an active seismic zone with the 1950 Assam-Tibet earthquake centred at Medog, causing widespread floods and devastation down stream.
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