But the full exploitation of hydro potential would damage immensely the livelihoods of tens of millions of people living downstream in the plains of the Mekong, Salween and Brahmaputra rivers.

全力开发水电将会严重损害邻国的利益，包括那些居住在湄公河、萨尔温江及怒江下游平原的几千万居民。

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Nutrients from the two great rivers of Ganges and Brahmaputra feed the soil of the paddies in the low-lying Ganges Delta.

来自两条大河，恒河和雅鲁藏布江的养分滋润着地势低洼的恒河三角洲的稻谷。

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"We show that meltwater is extremely important in the Indus basin and important for the Brahmaputra basin," they wrote, "but plays only a modest role for the Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow rivers."

我们发现融化的水在印度河流域和Brahmaputra是如此之重要，而在扬子江流域却仅仅起着不太大的作用。

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Water is already an object of contention, given that several of the big rivers of north India, including the Brahmaputra, on which millions depend, rise in Tibet.

ECONOMIST: India and China

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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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.

ECONOMIST: India's water crisis