By Joydeep Gupta “There will be major impact downstream if any of the 79 billion cubic metres of water that flows down the Brahmaputra into India every year is diverted or reduced.” Only five rivers in the world carry more water than the Yarlung Zangbo, or Brahmaputra as it is known when it reaches India. Only one carries more silt. Rising at a height of 5,300 metres in the Kailash range of the Middle Himalayas – an area holy to both Hindus and Buddhists – the river flows east through Tibet for 1,625
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