BRAHMPUTRA-A WATERWAY

On 24 Oct 06, there has been a considerable printed matter on the Dam being constructed over Brahamputra, during its run in China, where the dame is called Yangtse.
If we study the lie of the ground to include the mountains, valleys and rivers in Arunachal and Assam (Note that the Assam is contiguous to Arunachal), Arunachal is essentially new mountains, and the Asam essentially the plains. Also Assam is divided to the Upper and Lower by the mighty Brahmaputra. Please not the substantial width of the waterway, at place the same is upto 5 kms.
Notwithstanding the potential of the Mighty Waterway, to carry the water, the areas surrounding this waterway, is afflicted by floods, each monsoons, without a break.
A little study of the geography of the area North of the Waterway would reveal, that the alignment of river is certainly along Yangtze, turning South in the East, and entering India at Kibuthu , from where the same is called Lohit River. The river turns West along the lie of the Valley at Hayuliang, and slowly commences to split into various streams anf forming into what we call Brahmaputra in the Assam plains. As Brahmaputra moves with a swagger through the valley to Bangladesh, this waterway is being fed by the major rivers from the Hills of Arunachal, Bhutan and Sikkim. From East to West some of these are Lohit, Dibang, Siang, Siyom, Subansari and Kameng in Arunachal, and Tiesta from Sikkim
This not to relax on the issue of discussion with the China on sharing the waters of Yangtze, but merely to view the Brahmaputra as it is, and not merely an extension of Yangtze.

Pradeep Bajaj, Steppenwolf

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