Guwahati, April 8 -- Experts from different countries have expressed deep concern at the 'International Seminar on Ensuring Water Security, Ecological Integrity, and Disaster Resilience' over China's proposed "Great Bend Dam" on the Yarlung Tsangpo which is known as Brahmaputra in Tibet.

Participating in a daylong seminar titled "Ensuring Water Security, Ecological Integrity, and Disaster Resilience in the Sub-Himalayan Region: The Case of the Brahmaputra" organised by North East's premier think-tank Asian Confluence in Guwahati on Tuesday, author and Tibetologist Claude Arpi said China not only wants to become a power giant by building the dam in Medong county, but it also has plans to divert the water of Yarlung Tsangpo to the Yellow R...