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Survey of Rivers In TAR
(PTI; Xinhua) Amid concerns in India and Bangladesh over China's plans to
construct a dam on the Brahmaputra in Tibet, Chinese officials have started a
survey of the Himalayan region's major rivers - Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra),
Nyangchu, Lhasa (Kyichu), Niyang and Yarlung - to collect information and
statistics about the water resources in these rivers. Officials from the
environment and resources committee of the TAR People's Congress (local
legislature) will conduct the survey "As part of a nationwide environmental
protection drive, the campaign will be the longest and most wide-ranging
examination of the region's use of water resources", Xinhua news agency quoted
the deputy director of the standing committee of the TAR People's Congress,
Luosang Toinzhub as saying in Lhasa.
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