China has built more dams than any other country and more large dams than the rest of the world combined. This month, it officially acknowledged construction of the biggest dam ever conceived in human ...

South Asia is one of the most water-stressed regions in the world, with water in short supply in many parts of it, at least ...

NEW DELHI As China pushes ahead with its ambitious plan to build a $16.7 billion mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as the Brahmaputra in India, concerns have inevitably surged about the possible ...

When Bangladesh became the first country in South Asia to join the U.N.'s Water Convention earlier this year, it was ...

India has drawn a plan to build hydro projects totaling 65,000 MW across its Brahmaputra basin against China’s 60,000 MW plant, construction of which began in July this year.

BEIJING/NEW DELHI (IANS)- China on July 19 officially began construction on a mega dam project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo — the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River — in Tibet. This ...

Commissioning of units of the Subansiri hydropower project begins as work on China's mega dam proceeds. The project was ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, at an estimated ...

Plans by China and India to construct hydropower dams on a major Himalayan river raise the prospect of deadly environmental and humanitarian catastrophes for millions of people living downstream, ...