The air played with fiery languages on the football field where the Misty Mountains sounded, when the tribesmen protested the planned Mega-Dam, the most common Indian contest with China through the Himalayan water.
India says the proposed new structure can neutralize the competing Chinese building due to the expected record dam in Tibet, accumulating water and protecting from the release of arms torrents.
However, for those who are in one of the possible places due to the largest dam of India, the project feels like the death penalty.
“We will fight until the end of the time,” said Tapir Jamoh, Thatch-Hut Village Riew, a bow loaded with a naked arrow, a gesture against the authorities. “We will not let the dam.”
Jamoh Homeland Adi people are in the far northeast corner of India, divided by Tibetan and Myanmar, with snowy tops.
The proposed drawings indicate that India takes into account the location of the Aruunachal for a mass storage reservoir, the smooth pools of the four million Olympic sizes, 280 meters (918 feet) in height.
The project will take place when China presses a $ 167 billion Yaxia project against Riew by the river, called India as Siang and Tibet as Yarlung Tsangpo.
The Chinese plan includes five hydroelectric power plants that could produce three times more electricity than the major Gorges dam – the world’s largest power plant – although other details remain poor.
Beijing, who claims that Arunachal Pradesh, is fiercely rejected in India, says it will have no “negative impact” downstream.
“China has never had and will never have the intention to use cross-border hydroelectric power plants in rivers to harm the interests of the countries or close to them,” the Beijing Foreign Ministry told AFP.
China’s media reports show that the project can be more complex than one giant dam and may include the routing of water through tunnels.
The area around the village of Riew is one of the selected places dedicated to the Response Mega-Dam Indian, a project that, like Jomeh mine, is a faster threat to them.
“If the river is caught, we will also stop existing,” the 69-year-old man told AFP, saying that the end of the arrow was immersed in poisonous herbs, excavated from the mountains.
“Because it is from Siang that we draw our identity and culture,” he added.
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Despite warming between the new Delhi and Beijing, the two most popular nations have several contested border areas with tens of thousands of troops and India did not hide its concerns.
The river is a powerful tributary of the Brahmaputra, and Indian officials fear that China could use its dam as control – to create a fatal drought or to release a “water bomb” downstream.
China rejects this, saying that “Hype surrounding the Yaxia Hydro Power Plant project as a” water bomb “is unjustified and harmful.
However, Pema Khandu, the Chief Minister of the State of the Pradesh State, said that the protective action against the Chinese dam is a “necessity of national security” and holds an Indian dam as a safety valve to control water.
“The aggressive policy of Chinese water resource development leaves little room for downstream coastal nations,” said Maharaj K. Pandit, a Himalayan Ecology specialist at Singapore National University.
The Indian Dam could produce 11 200-11,600 megawatts hydroenergy, making it most powerful due to the huge margin and helping to reduce emissions from the carbon -dependent power grid.
However, power generation is not a priority, acknowledged by a senior engineer from the National Hydrower Corporation (NHPC) – the Federal Agency has signed a contract to develop the dam.
“It is for water safety and flood mitigation – if China seeks to arrange its dam and use it as a water bomb,” said the engineer, with an anonymity condition because he was not allowed to talk to journalists.
“During the lean season, the reservoir will be filled to the capacity so that it can add if the water is directed against the current,” the official said. “This is the calculation.”
Rain water will reach only two-thirds of the dam wall-so if China suddenly drains can absorb water.
Former Indian Ambassador Beijing Ashok K. Kantha called the Chinese dam project “reckless” and said the Indian dam, also generating power, will be a “defensive” from possible attempts to regulate water flow. “
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The Indian dam will create a giant reservoir of 9.2 billion cubic meters, but the exact area floods from the final place.
Adi people, like Jamoh, keep the sacred river and depend on the waters of her life to their lush lands marked with orange and jackfruit trees.
They are afraid the dam will sink their world.
“We are the children of Siang,” said Jamoh, who was the former Riew manager, who was forced to quit the local authorities before protesting against the dam.
May Furious Adi villagers blocked the NHPC to inspect the proposed location.
Today, government paramilitary forces monitor the remains of drilling machines that protesters tortured. But the protests did not stop.
When AFP visited, thousands gathered to hold a traditional court -style Adi Clans meeting to condemn the offered dam.
“We are asking to make a project plan to make an idea of the size of the dam,” said Bhanu Tatak from Suriang Local Farmers Forum (SIFF), local protest groups.
“Instead, they militarized us, treating us as extremists,” she said.
The dam, the locals are convinced, drowned in dozens of villages.
“If they were building a huge dam, the ADI community would disappear from the world map,” said Lyeng Libang of Yingkion, a city, which, even officials, will probably be completely underwater.
“ADI will be completely transferred,” he added. “We won’t be nowhere.”
NHPC did not respond to AFP requests to comment.
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The approach of the Indian Dam for-Dam may be unproductive, said Anamika Barua, a water management expert at the Guwahati Institute of the Indian Technology Institute.
“Diplomatic involvement, transparent water sharing agreements and investment in cooperative control of the river basin would produce more durable and fairer results than the development of reactive infrastructure,” she said.
Aruunachal Pradesh, who is in the earthquake, is also risky, Barua said.
However, the construction of Indian mass dams indicates that it will not leave this project. The other two main dams overcame local resistance.
“If the dam is to be built, I hope I will die before that day will come,” said Jamoh, an arc and arro.
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