The world's high dams including the ones in the Himalayan region cannot resist extreme weather patterns. The
fragility of the entire Himalayan watershed creates a compelling logic
for a cumulative impact assessment of all infrastructure projects in the
Indian and Chinese Himalayan region.
China and India are river civilisations. Both are the largest hydropower producers in Asia and have
become world leaders in dam construction, responsible for most new dams built since the 1990s. Neither China has drawn lessons from the collapse of the Shimantan and Banqiao dams on August 7, 1975, the
world's biggest dam disaster nor India is likely to learn from the
collapse of Chungthang dam at the midnight of October 4, 2023 in Sikkim.
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