TNPSC Thervupettagam

Brahmaputra and Sutlej Data Sharing

June 10 , 2018 2364 days 890 0
  • 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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