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he said. Buy Disney Princess Moonwalk India need to be much more aggress in implement it own hydel project so that our negoti posit vis- à -vi China improves. The answer to thi [problem] also li in India expedit it hydro project in the Brahmaputra basin.

as the Brahmaputra is known in Tibet. While there are,China is build a 540 MW run of the river' power gener project on the Yarlung Tsangpo. at present, no plan to divert the river, Mr. Ramesh warn that ani project would be difficult for India to accept.

therebi impact India as a middl riparian [countri on the middl reach of the river], The great fear in India ha been that China would divert water from the Brahmaputra to feed it arid southwest region. he told journalists. It would be veri difficult [to accept divers plans] both polit and also ecologically, particularli becaus of Arunach Pradesh and Assam. And not onli India, but also Bangladesh as a lower riparian would be badli affected.

Chines officials,Last month. for the first time, provid inform to India over it plan to build a hydel power project at Zangmu in Tibet. Official said the dam wa a run of the river' power project, and neither involv plan for storag nor diversion. A 540 MW run of the river' should not be caus for great concern, as much as a storag dam [would be], Mr. Ramesh said

however,Th Chines govern has. spoken of plan to divert the river' water as part of a $ 62- billion South-to-North Water Divers project. Work ha not yet begun on the project, which ha been mire in delai over safeti concern and rise costs. Chines offici told External Affair Minist S.M. Krishna dure hi visit here last month that the govern had no plan to divert the river.

Mr. Ramesh said,Th real concern for India. wa the absenc of ani water-shar agreement to regul ani futur us of the river' waters. We don't have a water-shar treaty, he said. But we have now begun the process of discuss on the exchang of hydrolog data. Thi is the first step forward. India need to continu discuss the water issu with the China, he said, ad the process wa go to be slow-going.