Water Bomb

On 19 July, China began constructing a $167.8 billion dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh. Billed as the largest infrastructure project in the world, this massive hydroelectric project is expected to not only jeopardize the region's fragile ecosystem but also enhance China's geopolitical leverage over India, the downstream nation.

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The scale of this project surpasses any other single infrastructure project in the world, including China's own Three Gorges Dam, currently regarded as the largest in the world and supposedly visible from space.

The Brahmaputra, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, originates at the Angsi Glacier near Gang Rinpoche (known as Mount Kailash to Indians), situated on the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Burang County, Tibet. It traverses the Tibetan Plateau, creating the deepest canyon on the planet. The dam is being constructed in a significant gorge in the Himalayan region, where the Brahmaputra makes a U-turn before flowing into Arunachal Pradesh and subsequently into the Bay of Bengal through Bangladesh. The project site is also positioned along a tectonic plate boundary. Located over the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, the Tibetan Plateau, also called the roof of the world, frequently experiences earthquakes.