by Clare Harrison The World’s Water Tower The Tibetan Plateau, with its vast grasslands, high altitude lakes, glaciers and snowy peaks, plays a fundamental role in maintaining the balance of global climatic systems. Known…
Water is precious. And its quality is as important for our survival as its quantity. Many recent Lha articles have been about the quantity of water. Either about water exploitation or misuse of water resources,…
By Navin Singh Khadka Environment reporter, BBC World Service / 8 September 2016
By Dukthen Kyi & Lynn Holland: Tibet, known as “the roof of the world,” is seen as a place of peace and tranquility where humans and nature may co-exist in harmony. For Tibetans, the hills, mountains,…
Conservation of watersheds Much of the development in Tibet described above reveals a pattern focusing mainly on natural resource extraction. Mining and deforestation are the most obvious examples of this; the utilisation of rivers for hydropower and irrigation is…
YAMDROK TSO Yamdrok Tso (Yamdrok Lake) is situated 100 km southwest of Lhasa at an elevation of 4,441 metres. It has a catchment area of 6,100 sq. km and a surface area of 678 sq. km. The lake…
Water Pollution and Scarcity It is obvious that there would be catastrophic consequences to the billions of people downstream if Tibet’s rivers were to become severely polluted. In many of the reliant regions water treatment facilities are very…
THE MOUNTAINS of Tibet constitute the headwaters of many of Asia’s major rivers. Tibet’s high altitude, huge landmass and vast glaciers endows it with the greatest river system in the world.