नेपाल में बाढ़ का असर दूर बहने वाली ब्रह्मपुत्र नदी पर भी

Nepal's floods matter for far-away Brahmaputra Jayanta Roy Chowdhury New Delhi, Aug 27 (UNI) The deadly glacier burst in Tibet, which triggered a wall of water and mud to drown the narrow gorges of the Bhote Kosi River in neighbouring Nepal, has intensified scrutiny of China's construction and dam‑building activity on the roof of the world. Construction in the highly fragile Himalayas can cause erosion, trigger earthquakes and landslides, and set off a chain of ecological events from glacier bursts to snow avalanches, which in turn can cause floods and a whirlwind of destruction downstream. The magnitude 4.4 earthquake in…