This report presents findings from the project ‘Water Diplomacy: Making Water Cooperation Work‘. “Dry Teesta mutating farming pattern.” Dhaka Tribune, April 17, 2014. It analyzes key factors that affect transboundary water cooperation over the Brahmaputra river basin.Water cooperation over the Brahmaputra is heavily influenced by socio-economic and political factors, as well as biophysical and material contexts. The feedback loops that result from massive declines in water availability are directly correlated with human health and may result in a rise in water-borne diseases such as cholera. This situation is further aggravated by the India’s water disputes with its neighbours and inter-state river water disputes in India. Ray, Aparna. Interviews (All done in November 2011. Siddique, Abu Bakar. China is historically involved in river water sharing disputes with almost all its neighbours including Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.

Along its course the Brahmaputra passes International River Water Disputes: India-Bangladesh Dispute on River Ganga Water: Ganga water dispute is connected with the Kolkata port. Press Trust of India. “India, Bangladesh: Water Disputes and Teesta River Diplomacy.” June 8, 2012. China has been building dams after dams in the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra which is called Tsangpo in Tibet. The flow of water of river Ganga from the steep slope of Himalayas is very fast and within the boundaries of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, many companion rivers merge into it. Brahmaputra river water sharing is the major flashpoint between India and China. ... water management in South Asia with a detailed zoom on the case of the Brahmaputra river basin. Both Brahmaputra and the glaciers that feed Ganga originate in China. It flows some 1,800 miles (2,900 km) from its source in the Himalayas to its confluence with the Ganges (Ganga) River, after which the mingled waters of the two rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal.

As the Brahmaputra river dries up, along with other rivers critical to the survival of India, gross per capita water availability will decline by 1/3rd by 2050.

... India-China Water Dispute. There was considerable disquiet in India in 2017 when China stopped providing the Brahmaputra water flow data after the armies of the two countries had gone eyeball to eyeball over a border dispute in Doklam, a plateau in the high Himalayas near the borders of Bhutan, China and India. The river drops steeply from the heights of the Tibetan Plateau through the world’s deepest valley (5,075m) into northeast India where the river eventually merges with the Ganges and Meghna rivers to form the largest river delta in the world (60,000km2).The Brahmaputra basin covers 651,334 km2 (WRI), 58% of which lies in India and 20% in China. “Landslide blocks river, creates artificial lake in Sikkim.” August 14, 2016. Brahmaputra River, major river of Central and South Asia.