India to counter China’s ‘water bomb’ dam in occupied Tibet with mega dam of its own

India is to build in Arunachal Pradesh what would be its largest dam with a design to absorb any possible weaponized release of water from the world’s largest and potentially most dangerous dam China is building just across the border in occupied Tibet, according to media reports.

However, unlike the project in Tibet, where any local opposition is unthinkable because of the brutality of the occupying power towards any perceived opposition to its rule, the Indian project faces stiff opposition from a section of the local population whose villages may be submerged by it.

Proposed blueprints show India considering the site in Arunachal Pradesh for a massive storage reservoir, equal to four million Olympic-size swimming pools, behind a 280-metre (918-foot) high dam, reported the AFP Sep 30. China recently broke ground for the building of the world’s largest ever hydropower dam in the ecologically fragile and seismically active Metog county in Tibet over the Yarlung Tsangpo river with investment of $167 billion.

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