{"id":412715,"date":"2021-04-29T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412715"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:40:51","slug":"melting-glaciers-may-disrupt-chinas-plan-to-build-dam-over-brahmaputra-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/melting-glaciers-may-disrupt-chinas-plan-to-build-dam-over-brahmaputra-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Melting glaciers may disrupt China&#8217;s plan to build dam over Brahmaputra in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melting glaciers and barrier lakes could threaten China&#8217;s plan to build the world&#8217;s biggest hydroelectric dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Arunachal Pradesh border, a media report said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed dam which one Chinese official said has &#8220;no parallel in history\u201d will be built in Medog county, where the Brahmaputra Grand Canyon is located. Medog is the last county in Tibet which is located close to the Arunachal Pradesh border.<\/p>\n<p>The plan to build the mega-dam, which is part of China\u2019s 14th five-year plan beginning from this year, was approved by China\u2019s Parliament, the National People\u2019s Congress in March this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melting glaciers and barrier lakes could threaten China&#8217;s plan to build the world&#8217;s biggest hydroelectric dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Arunachal Pradesh border, a media report said on Wednesday. The proposed dam which one Chinese official said has &#8220;no parallel in history\u201d will be built in Medog county, where the Brahmaputra Grand Canyon is located. Medog is the last county in Tibet which is located close to the Arunachal Pradesh border. The plan to build the mega-dam, which is part of China\u2019s 14th five-year plan beginning from this year, was approved by China\u2019s Parliament, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}