TIBETAN PLATEAU (China), Jan 10 — From the flood-ravaged banks of the Brahmaputra to the disappearing wetlands of the Mekong, Asia’s main waterways — and the people that live along them — are fighting for survival. Climate change, international politics, spiralling population growth, and...
This aerial file photo taken on October 31, 2019 shows the Mekong River in the Pak Chom district in the northeastern Thai province of Loei with the Laos side at left. — AFP pic
The continent’s ten major rivers flow out of the Tibetan Plateau, which China has political control over, creating unique challenges and requiring international cooperation if Asia is to boom in the century ahead. Flooding on the Brahmaputra is becoming increasingly violent, displacing entire communities and causing hundreds of deaths.
With its surging population, experts warn the nation faces “absolute water scarcity” by 2025, citing the loss of the Himalayan glaciers as a key threat. But squeezed for value by the dams lacing China’s portion of the river, and further downstream, the Mekong is already changing.
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