Fernandes announced the plan at the commissioning of the largely indigenously-developed INS Brahmaputra in mid-April in Calcutta.

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Forest guard Nomal Boro said the poachers opened fire and then tried to flee toward the Brahmaputra River.

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At the same time, the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers promises to deprive the great rivers of the Indian sub-continent, the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra, of their summertime source.

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Many areas are simply impossible to protect, such as the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, where one of the mightiest rivers in the world keeps changing its course on its flat flood plain.

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The early British planters could not find workers locally so labour contractors collected not just men, but women and children too, from distant parts of India and sent them on boats up the Brahmaputra river which flows through Assam.

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England has been intimately connected to this corner of India since 1826, when the British began planting tea estates all along the river valley of the mighty Brahmaputra, which courses out of the Himalayas and flows through Assam on its way to the Indian Ocean.

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The public version of the report did not list specific countries but only watersheds of concern (Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Mekong, Jordan, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Amu Darya) that corresponded with nations that are strategically important to the United States, illustrating the intersections between water challenges and U.S. national security.

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