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Brahmaputra and Sutlej Data Sharing
June 10 , 2018
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- China has resumed sharing hydrological data on the Brahmaputra and Sutlej rivers with India after a year’s gap.
- China stopped the exercise citing that the hydrological gathering sites were washed away due to floods. It also coincided with the 73-day Doklam stand-off that took place during the peak monsoon period.
- China has resumed sharing hydrological data after the two sides held talks over the issue in March.
- Data will be shared twice daily until October.
- Beijing has started providing data from three hydrological stations — Nugesha, Yangcun, and Nuxia, lying on the mainstream of the Brahmaputra, also known as Yarlung Zangbo in China
- Data is shared from the station at Tsada for the Sutlej, known as Langqen Zangbo
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