India and China hold water management talks

GUWAHATI: India and China have held talks on ways to avert flash floods from an artificial Tibetan lake that threatened to burst its banks and inundate an Indian valley last month, an Indian minister said on Tuesday. A six-member team of officials was due back in New Delhi after meeting Chinese counterparts in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, Water Resources Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi told reporters in Guwahati, the main city in India’s northeastern Assam state. India’s delegation included experts from the Central Water Commission, the Geological Survey of India and the home ministry. They travelled to Lhasa at the invitation of the Chinese authorities. “The main emphasis of the Lhasa meeting was to chalk out ways and means to avoid any future threat of flooding in Himachal Pradesh state from the Pareechu River in Tibet,” Dasmunsi said. afp

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