It seems according to Sudhir Sir, being silent is the most applicable solution.
But Darwinian Philosophy here would have us, Assamese, at the receiving end.
There has been many agreements signed between India and Bangladesh pertaining
to water sharing of Ganga and Brahmaputra. Only when rainfall in India is less
Bangladesh receives less water. Now the situation will further worsen with
still less water reaching Bangladesh. Is India to blame for this? The US-Mexico
situation is not the same as China-India. Both nuclear powers, China and India,
should be able to find a midway through talks.
With Brahmaputra's water never been utilised well, with the irrigation skeleton
in Assam totally shattered, and Hydro-Electric Potential still of academic
interest, India's half hearted attempt will be kept aside very easily unless
some resistence from the true sufferers is made heard. We need to access the
ecological effect before coming to a certain conclusion. With the numerous
tributaries of Brahmaputra contributing to its volume handsomely, what would be
the net effect in the water level is also needs to be found out.
There has been a talk about the level of salinity in Bay of Bengal, which will
increase due to less flow of water into it, which may reduce water evaporation
to some extent, lessening the amount of rainfall in the region, which may
effect tributarial water flow. Situation may be grimmer than what is being
discussed. Expert comments are please welcome. We should not be too late to
react.
Regards,
Satyakam
Sudhir Vombatkere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note how we worry Satyakam bhai, when our upstream (powerful) neighbour intends
to divert water, but we think nothing of diverting water of Ganga while our
downstream (weaker) neighbour howls.
USA sits on Canada, its upstream neighbour and sits on Mexico, its downstream
neighbour, claiming rights on water both as upstream and downstream nation, and
gets away with it. Both are weaker and cannot argue with USA.
This is the typical neighbourhood bully (or goonda) attitude taken by all
governments starting with USA. If a chap is weaker, sit on him and if he is
stronger lick his boots. And eliminate equals. No principles at all !!
Sudhir Vombatkere
From: satyakam dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [asom] China's river plan worries India - TOI 23/10/2006
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:48:03 -0700 (PDT)
>Yes...
>
>We are really worried about this, Some people among us have discussed this
in Orkut. Can we do something about it? Or wait for our governments to reach a
compromise. We should not let China do this at all cost. This may bring about
dire consequences to Assam and NE.
>
>Satyakam
>
>barnali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> has anybody read bout the frantic conspiracy of
> China for north east by diverting our great Brahmaputra???
>
> we should be worried,
barnali
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