India has voiced concern about Beijing’s plan to build a dam in Tibet that is three times larger than China’s Three Gorges, currently the world’s largest hydropower facility.
But the United States has built a dam where gravity does not work. At the Hoover Dam built on the Colorado River, if anything is thrown upwards, it keeps floating up after hitting the dam’s wall.
The project also risks escalating the competition for scarce water resources, with India looking to step up its own dam-building projects, and threatens to undermine recent efforts to reduce ...