Siang River

Why in news?

• India is planning to build a large barrage on the Siang River to protect it from a Chinese dam being built in Tibet. The dam is being built on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet’s Medog district.
• Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu warned that if India does not respond to the dam, his state and neighbouring Assam could face environmental disasters, including floods.

About Siang river:

• The river Siang is known by the name of the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, Tsangpo – Yarlung Zangbo in China.
• This transboundary river originating near the Kailash range. It follows in an easterly direction, parallel to the Himalayan ranges.
• When Tsangpo enters Arunachal Pradesh, it is known as the Dihang (or Siang) River.
• It then turns towards south and enters Assam where it is joined by two mountain streams, the Lohit and the Dibang and thereafter it is known as Brahmaputra.???????

PRACTICE QUESTION:

Consider the following rivers:

1.Siang

2. Teesta

3. Rapti

How many of them are transboundary (flows through at least two countries) rivers?

(a) Only one

(b) Only two

(c) All three

(d) None

Answer