China’s Mêdog Dam: A ticking time bomb on India’s doorstep

China has embarked on an ambitious project to construct a massive dam on the Yarlung Tsongpo River in Tibet, which it claims will be the largest dam ever built in the world. With an expected power generation capacity of over 300 billion kWh, this dam would dwarf the Three Gorges Dam, which is currently the largest in the world generating 88.2 billion kWh, three times over. The proposed Dam will be in the Mêdog county of Nyingchi Prefecture in