Tribesmen in India’s northeast protest mega-dam plan to counter China | Water News

On a football pitch ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as an Indigenous community protested against a planned mega-dam, India’s latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water.

India says the proposed new structure could counteract China’s construction of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and guarding against the release of weaponised torrents.

But for those at one of the possible sites for what would be India’s…