FILE PHOTO: This photograph taken on August 21, 2025 shows Tapir Jamoh, an Adi tribe elder, interacting during an interview with AFP at his home facing potential risk of submersion owing to the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project on the Siang river, a proposed hydroelectric mega-dam project, at Riew village in the East Siang district of the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. - AFP
RIEW, India; On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam - India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water.
India says the proposed new structure could counteract rival China's building of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and guarding against releases of weaponised torrents.
