Why China ‘turning off faucet’ may be another Pakistan bluff | India News

GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Monday demolished newest Pakistani scaremongering after India decisively stepped away from Indus Waters Treaty – what if China cuts off Brahmaputra’s water provide to India? He referred to as it a fable & cited exhausting information to show the river slicing by way of Assam is a rain-fed watercourse that grows in India, not shrinks.“Let’s dismantle this myth – not with fear, but with facts and national clarity,” Sarma posted on X, including: “Brahmaputra is not a river India depends on upstream – it is a rain-fed Indian river system, strengthened after entering Indian territory.”According to Sarma, China’s contribution to the river’s circulate is minimal, solely 30-35%, principally from glacial soften and restricted Tibetan rainfall. The relaxation 65-70% is generated inside India by torrential monsoon rainfall throughout Arunachal, Assam, Nagaland, and Meghalaya.Sarma additional listed main Indian tributaries feeding Brahmaputra – Subansiri, Lohit, Kameng, Manas, Dhansiri, Jia-Bharali, and Kopili, together with inflows from Khasi, Garo, and Jaintia Hills by way of rivers like Krishnai, Digaru, and Kulsi.If China ever does “turn off the tap”, Sarma stated it would truly scale back flood devastation in Assam, which displaces lakhs yearly. At Tuting on India-China border in Arunachal’s Upper Siang district, Brahmaputra’s circulate is 2,000-3,000 cubic metre per second – however swells to fifteen,000-20,000 cubic metre per second in Assam throughout monsoon.Backed by water governance consultants, Sarma’s put up drew sturdy help from Nilanjan Ghosh, vice-president of Development Studies and senior director at Observer Research Foundation in Kolkata. Ghosh stated China’s upstream interventions could have “negligible or almost no effect” on Brahmaputra’s general circulate.Brahmaputra originates at Angsi Glacier in Tibet, flows 1,625km as Yarlung Tsangpo earlier than coming into India the place it runs 918km – as Siang, Dihang, then Brahmaputra – and finishes its 2,880km journey with a 337km stretch in Bangladesh, earlier than assembly Ganga. Though China has introduced plans to construct an enormous hydropower dam on Yarlung Tsangpo, Indian consultants stated Brahmaputra’s scale and Indian monsoon power make fears of water cuts largely unfounded.IDSA senior fellow Uttam Sinha, citing peer-reviewed information, stated even throughout lean intervals Yarlung Tsangpo’s annual outflow from China is much decrease than Brahmaputra’s complete discharge in India.