Taming the Brahmaputra: China’s Mega-Dam Project
In the high mountains of Tibet, at a strategic bend of the Yarlung Zangbo River—known downstream in India as the Brahmaputra—China has launched a bold, controversial hydropower project. The Medog Hydropower Station, also called the Yarlung Zangbo Mega-Dam, is poised to become the largest hydropower facility in the world. While the project’s scale and ambition … Read more