“India, Bangladesh: Water Disputes and Teesta River Diplomacy.” June 8, 2012. Both Brahmaputra and the glaciers that feed Ganga originate in China. Diplomatic water cooperation: the case of the Sino-Indian dispute over the Brahmaputra. Interviews (All done in November 2011. There was considerable disquiet in India in 2017 when China stopped providing the Brahmaputra water flow data after the armies of the two countries had gone eyeball to eyeball over a border dispute in Doklam, a plateau in the high Himalayas near the borders of Bhutan, China and India. Press Trust of India. Siddique, Abu Bakar. It analyzes key factors that affect transboundary water cooperation over the Brahmaputra river basin.Water cooperation over the Brahmaputra is heavily influenced by socio-economic and political factors, as well as biophysical and material contexts. The flow of water of river Ganga from the steep slope of Himalayas is very fast and within the boundaries of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, many companion rivers merge into it.

China is historically involved in river water sharing disputes with almost all its neighbours including Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. China has been building dams after dams in the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra which is called Tsangpo in Tibet. Along its course the Brahmaputra passes
The river, known as the Yarlung Zangbo in China and as the Brahmaputra in India, starts its 1,760 mile (2,840 km) journey beneath Mount Kailash, high … As the Brahmaputra river dries up, along with other rivers critical to the survival of India, gross per capita water availability will decline by 1/3rd by 2050.

Ray, Aparna. ... water management in South Asia with a detailed zoom on the case of the Brahmaputra river basin. The feedback loops that result from massive declines in water availability are directly correlated with human health and may result in a rise in water-borne diseases such as cholera. Brahmaputra River, major river of Central and South Asia.

“Dry Teesta mutating farming pattern.” Dhaka Tribune, April 17, 2014. “Landslide blocks river, creates artificial lake in Sikkim.” August 14, 2016.

International River Water Disputes: India-Bangladesh Dispute on River Ganga Water: Ganga water dispute is connected with the Kolkata port. This situation is further aggravated by the India’s water disputes with its neighbours and inter-state river water disputes in India. ... India-China Water Dispute. The river drops steeply from the heights of the Tibetan Plateau through the world’s deepest valley (5,075m) into northeast India where the river eventually merges with the Ganges and Meghna rivers to form the largest river delta in the world (60,000km2).The Brahmaputra basin covers 651,334 km2 (WRI), 58% of which lies in India and 20% in China. The river drops steeply from the heights of the Tibetan Plateau through the world’s deepest valley (5,075m) into northeast India where the river eventually merges with the Ganges and Meghna rivers to form the largest river delta in the world (60,000km2).The Brahmaputra basin covers 651,334 km2 (WRI), 58% of which lies in India and 20% in China. Brahmaputra river water sharing is the major flashpoint between India and China.

This report presents findings from the project ‘Water Diplomacy: Making Water Cooperation Work‘. It flows some 1,800 miles (2,900 km) from its source in the Himalayas to its confluence with the Ganges (Ganga) River, after which the mingled waters of the two rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal.