China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Mega-Dam: Why India wants river data from Beijing

India seeks river data from China as mega-dam construction advances on Tibet’s Yarlung river

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 11: India has renewed its demand for China to resume sharing hydrological data on the Brahmaputra and provide information on upstream river projects, as Beijing moves ahead with the construction of what is expected to be the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, the river that flows into India as the Brahmaputra. The issue was raised during the 36th meeting of their ‘Working Mechanism fo…

China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Mega-Dam: Why India wants river data from Beijing

At the 36th India-China Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination, or WMCC meeting, in New Delhi in August 2026, India sought the resumption of hydrological-data sharing and asked for more information about China’s upstream hydropower projects.

As China begins building world’s largest dam across its Tibet-border, India seeks hydrological data transparency - Tibetan Review

(TibetanReview.net, Aug10’26) – China has already been wielding the hydrological data it controls in occupied Tibet as a weapon against India, refusing to share it despite an agreement after bilateral relations turned sour in the aftermath of the 2020 Galwan Valley border clashes. China’s recent decision to begin building the world largest ever hydro-electric dam […]