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canexan — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:01:56 -0000

Ahhhhh, proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free... You are more idiotic than the song.

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canexan — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:57:20 -0000

And US cares only about US.

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canexan — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:56:49 -0000

Real stoot Bubba.

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againstsam — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:45:52 -0000

The only solution is to ask people to pay for water they use. The water consumption will reduce from 800 lpcd to 120 lpcd, the industries will start recycling the water and there will be enough water for everyone. Otherwise be ready for 3rd world war. It is reality that 3rd world war will be over water.

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opAZ01 — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:22:43 -0000

wonder if cnn is too lazy to even show maps of the mentioned projects in China?

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sthart — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:32:58 -0000

China only cares about China.

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irec — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:35:25 -0000

India has to hand out the south Tibet that British india occupied to change the water.

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AKLightning — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:36:21 -0000

China has its own problems,like this Tuesday ,you can boating on Beijing streets

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AKLightning — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:24:00 -0000

6,the control line refer to McMahon Line. I read the book wrote by Britain, the Britain colonist or the governor of India 1880s spread the territory though force , with the conquer near to far, they eventually had conflict with mountainside tribes, the Britain couldn't win them for the complex terrain. and they considered the mountainside tribes are troubles-makers,so drew a line on the Plain and mountainous.Which now claim by China. well later, the British settled down and became more stronger, then McMahon ,Sir thought more ,then drew the McMahon Line,which superposition the Himalays edge. and they wanted the Chinese Goverment to agree this line as boundary in 1914.the china disagreed.and with 20 years civil war.
1936, Japanese already occupied 3 province of China ,and crossed the Great Wall and wanted to take more though war . then the British India unilateral announced the McMahon Line as China and India's boundary.
When the British gone, India Nehru inherited Britain2rd.
Now both c and i want to maintein the status quo boundary. Though a little sorrow , just hope the mountain tribe people live in peace and happyness.

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AKLightning — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:38:32 -0000

Usually I respect the Professors,but I have to say ,you are an amateur in this artcle. first,I'm a chinese. the rainfall in tibet is little for the block of high Himalays. and India controls the south of the mountain. The fact is the River's runoff between the control line is very low.nealy all the water of the Brahmaputra is from the south of the mountain for the rain clouds are from Indian Ocean to North and can't get across Himalaya mountain.2,dams is delay off the water,but not make water disappear. the really risk not the water missing ,but when the dam broken caused by earthquake or war,the downstream will be flood,and millions of people will die.this is a disaster and this is the key point. and i consider both india and china won't ruin the dam if there was a dam even one of them will be lose the war.
3,you refer the china's water transfer.I know is a little.the elevation of the control line is about 2000meters. the dam is about 3000meters.well you wanna transfer theBrahmaputra water ,you have to span mountains elevation over 4000meters , never speak of the little available waters in Tibet.and the path will be full of earthquake. if you dig holes which the water flow,I can promise , the path willbe block in 2 years. So i can say , even the next century, the human can't transfer the Brahmaputra water to any else river.
4,china's water transfer plans have plenty water resources from Yangzi River.and other rivers in Sichuan province.
5,any other questions,just refer to GoogleEarth , a good tool and you can find the reality:china can't reduce any river water flow into india from Tibet. and the waters in india first in coulee,even drought,indian can't use waters in large scale ,then downstream, many rivers gather up, water is plenty.

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Epacific — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:34:12 -0000

This is an interesting article. Another country that India needs a water treaty with is Nepal: the upper-riparian nation from which India gets a great deal of its water. As a result of its growing population and industrialization, India's requirement for power AND water is rapidly increasing. The
latter point is important as, due to India's climate, it can easily
have another growing season in the winter- if it has water. Nepal can
supply this by building reservoir dams but wants its southern neighbour to pay
for the extra flow of water during the winter months. India, of course, does not want to
pay for "water augmentation".

While Nepal is currently undergoing a shortage of power itself, in the long-run this pales in comparison to India's needs: just the masses turning on their air conditioners in U.P. and Bihar alone during the summer months is enough to cause a huge power spike! As with Pakistan, India needs to sign a mutually beneficial treaty with Nepal. The nation of Nepal has previously been burned with the Mahakali Treaty signed with India as well as current issues with India building dams on the border, resulting in flooding of Nepali territory. Once India can resolve such issues, it needs to set up mutually beneficial treaties with China as well as Nepal if it is to meet its future needs in both power and agriculture.

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LtColJesus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:28:47 -0000

Nah. We need a World War to significantly reduce the Human population and boost the economy. And give someone an excuse to vaporize Israel in the "fog of war".

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IAF101 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:19:39 -0000

India and Pakistan signed a treaty that has little to do with China. India can revisit the treaty but it is useful to some extent in keeping Pakistan guessing. Even if China signs an accord, they would never abide by it in any meaningful way so treaties are meaningless with China.

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IAF101 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:14:09 -0000

I don't see India to accept any treaty signed by China to be honorable anyway. The idea that China can actually be trusted to abide by any treaty they sign is incredibly naive. Most likely, India will just need to dam up its own parts of the river and let any sudden floods inundate the Chinese side while the river still flows.
For India it works out very well - when Bangladesh complains about water scarcity, India can simply lay the blame on China thereby alienating Bangladesh from China.

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captainjohann samuhanand — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:23:01 -0000

Indians always sleep over things. They do not even use the Indus water treaty to augument water to parched areas legally agreed.China is mightier and it is upper riprarian state and it is in India's interest to ask for a treaty.

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Anti-AntiUSPropaganda — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:12:45 -0000

China is never friends with anyone, even themselves. They are their own worst enemy.

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Ooffama — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:56:03 -0000

It surprises me thatwe even bother about water from China or elsewhere. What India needs to fix is the hopelessly pathetic water management within. Take Cherrapunji for example: the second wettest place is India faces severe water crisis during most non-monsoon months because there is no mechanism to manage the oodles of water that pours during monsoon. Or Yamuna which has been polluted to such an extent that water is too toxic to be of any use. If we could fix these problems we wouldn't have to worry about China blocking the Brahmputra water.

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HyderabadNo1 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:48:47 -0000

While reading this article, it became quite evident that there's so much that us Indians can learn from the Chinese. To be specific, the Chinese are amazing at mandating large projects to move large amounts of water to its people. If India were half as good and committed to this, most of our cities and towns wouldn't have such water crises as they are right now. At the same time, there is a darker side to such progress, as it would, undeniably, harm the environment and is a major burden to the people. To be specific, millions of people, cities, and villages had to be moved or evacuated just to build China's current dam. Scientists also predict that the environmental damage may be very heavy. India can follow in China's footsteps, and it can fix its problems, but has to be more aggressive with its waters, and if it plans on succeeding in the 21st century, it MUST build such dams and projects to solve its water crisis. We may be the world's largest Democracy, but that's no excuse for the sheer lack of action from Delhi-- it's now turned into mere laziness to act. I believe that, if implemented correctly, such treaties such as those with Pakistan are possible in order to ensure equal sharing of the earth's plentiful waters.

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shakham — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:28:20 -0000

It will come down to leverage...
What leverage does India have against China?

A threat of devastating war may be a last resort.

@raju3091: Okay, so we have now established that Bangladesh is spelled with an E. Good job.

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shakham — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:25:09 -0000

I don't think China will really care. They will put themselves first, and likely to an unfair degree, but that's how it works.

They will put Pakistan & India in the same boat from their perspective.

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Ooffama — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:15:40 -0000

I heard the Pak-China friendship is "taller than the mountains and deeper than the oceans". So if China cuts our water, we cut Pakistan's. Fair deal.

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raju3091 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:30:25 -0000

*Bangladesh* (the I isn't near the E on a keyboard, so that proves you can't even spell)

Re: Why the time for a China-India water treaty is now

Anti-AntiUSPropaganda — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:32:15 -0000

It's not surprising that China would not want to cooperate with another nation.

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dgupta — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:48:39 -0000

I don't see there is any need for China to sign any such treaty with India. To any country, meeting is own needs is more important than meeting others. Remember other parts of China is in much worse situation than parts of India. I think it is just a pipe dream to ask China to guarantee water flow to India while its parts are severely short of water. India, for example, doesn't want to sign similar treaties with other downstream countries like Bangladish. Don't expect other country treat you better.