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Indian Rivers Inter-link

Yes there is, your friend meant to troll. He already knew why it would never happen I was just saying if he was willing to put your troops lives on the line he should fight alongside them no?
Your people already accuse India of diverting/stealing the river waters in Kashmir. So, what happened to that? India already has 100's of thousands of soldiers guarding the borders..

Link the rivers of Kashmir but just remember to join your soldiers at the front since your suggestion will undoubtedly lead to the death of thousands on both sides of the border.
Almost all Pakistani's already believe that India is diverting water from Kashmir rivers, and still Pakistan has done zilch.. Its better that India as well go ahead and do what Pakistani's already believe as fact.
 
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River linking project is not about diverting rivers. It is similar to a nationwide electric grid which provides for load balancing.

Similar load balancing will be done by the linked rivers by regulating the water flow. This will also help keep the water ecosystem healthy as most rivers will the become perenial and damage due to floods will be minimal.

By connecting a nation wide electrical grid, does one area get more power or can the power be diverted ? Of course there will be political debate but in the larger interest of the nation it is something that must be done especially since India is a water scarce state and water scarcity is supposed to be a serious problem in the near future
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Very interesting justification for water inter-link , we Chinese can maybe start with Bramaputra, this will regulate the water flow with the rest of our rivers :lol: After our South-Noth water inter-link, we will take care of water resource in Tibet.

 
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Very interesting justification for water inter-link , we Chinese can maybe start with Bramaputra, this will regulate the water flow with the rest of our river :lol: After our South-Noth water inter-link, we will take care of water resource in Tibet.


Hey man your national interest follow it, but please remember that you are going to kill your Bangladeshi friends.:lol:
 
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None of the maps show the rivers of Kashmir being interconnected to rest of the river grid.. I wonder why this has been left out..

Because they dont belong to you and your kind know it. Just stick with ganga filth
 
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@BDforever , there you go now please don't annoy India when we dam the river, China is planning on teleporting water to you.

Have you ever hear of BD gorvernment complain about us? :lol:, they're well aware of what you guys are doing in the other side of the fence. I think BD people will be glad to see China to administrate India with the same treatement that they're received.

 
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This current plan does not affect Pakistan unless the Kashmir rivers are involved, which it looks like it isn't. That just means its affect Bangladesh and down stream Indian states. Poor Bangladesh will probably not even make a fuss with Hasina in charge. :P
Except Sheikh Mujib and Zia no one could take a strand on this issue. I cannot imagine Indians will not like to integrate the Jamuna-Rajasthan link with J&K flows in a subsequent phase.
 
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Is it possible with the current state level leaders? I mean we are expecting politicians like amma and didi to give a nod to sharing.
 
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No, river links and electric power grid is not similar.

We have national power grid networks to make sure that power plants in different regions can supply power over a large area. So if there is a local fault at some plant, the other plants can take up the slack.

That is exactly what linked river system will do. Flood waters in some areas will be diverted to regions with low water levels. Distribute waters of a large area and make more land fertile and cultivable. Develop fishing industry even in inland regions and kick start a water transport industry.

For rivers, diverting and affecting their natural courses and flows will have negative effects, especially on such a large scale. These rivers have been flowing in their natural form for thousands of years, and have supported civilizations during that time. It would be catastrophic to disrupt the natural form of these rivers.

Natural form of the river is changed every day. Sometimes in large demonstrable form or sometime in smaller changes that aggregate over time. The linked rivers will continue to support the same civilization but will also provide life line to other civilizations that is currently starved for water.

There are Negative effects and Positive effects to everything we do. That does not mean we stop doing anything. New waterways that will be build will also support the water ecology. More immortality water treatment plants will become necessary since we cannot divert sewage water into canals and feed that to the population.

If you want to store water for excess capacity, build dams or barrages. River Ganges, for example, is heavily polluted now. If you link it up to another river that is not as polluted, you risk upsetting the ecology of that river, not to mention that rivers have their own unique habitats/ecosystem. Some rivers are more saline than others, for example.

Dams serve a completely different purpose. Large ones are built to generate electricity. Check dams are built to check the flow.

Naturally there has to be guidelines for linking rivers. Pollution levels being one. That much is understood. Water salinity in the river waters do not vary greatly in India.

I think mankind should stay away from these kind of ambitious projects unless there is 100% certainty that there is no negative consequences.

Building smaller dams and tributaries might be one solution. But then dams themselves are controversial.

There will always be some Negative consequences, point is to take action when the positive consequence outweigh the negative.

As someone already has mentioned, these two are not similar. Please read the second post that I have made to this topic. Linking ganges to South India rever is not feasible since the canals or pipelines will have to cross bindha with an elevation of 500 meters on average which will cost enormous electricity. Secondly huge reservoirs need to be made to store surplus water in densely populated Northern states which is not possible.

It will also result in ecological disaster of great magnitude and existing flora and fona will be destroyed.

Better way is to link all south Indian rivers and make a full use of available water.

It is unlikely that linking Ganges to south India will be taken during the 1st Phase. First Phase will always be the low hanging fruit. Learnings from those will be used to chart the future.

Why are reservoirs required when they are not used now ? We are not talking about draining the river dry. Water levels in all linked rivers are regulated.

Some flora and fona will be destroyed and new flora and fona will develop in the linking canals and the linked rivers. The over all effect will be positive for the ecology.

Very interesting justification for water inter-link , we Chinese can maybe start with Bramaputra, this will regulate the water flow with the rest of our rivers :lol: After our South-Noth water inter-link, we will take care of water resource in Tibet.


Yawn .......:coffee: First get the pollution levels in bejing down. ......then again don't. We really don't care either way.
 
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Why are reservoirs required when they are not used now ? We are not talking about draining the river dry. Water levels in all linked rivers are regulated.

Because excess water during rainy season will be needed to store in reservoirs which will then be circulated across river system during draught using high capacity pumps. Yes we are not talking about draining the river dry and we are also not talking about a drop of water during summer when we already face water crunch.

Some flora and fona will be destroyed and new flora and fona will develop in the linking canals and the linked rivers. The over all effect will be positive for the ecology.

You are making it sound so simple and harmless, however sundarbon is infinite times more important than some canals.
 
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and waters r interlined through barrages and canals as mentioned in links.
Barrages are used to control the amount of water passing through the structure amd canals are also not used for interlinkin rivers.

The first link you gave is totally out of context.
Second link talks about list of barrages and dams.
Third link talks about barrages on Indus river.
 
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