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About Myitsone dam:
- The dam will be built on the Irrawaddy / Ayeyarwady River.
- The project to build the 6,000-megawatt Myitsone dam in northern Kachin state was ended in 2011 under a previous junta.
- It would have exported around 90% of the power it generated to China.
- A World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) report in 2018 estimated that some 34 million people in Myanmar live in the Ayeyarwady basin, roughly two thirds of the country’s population.
- The severely endangered Ganges shark and the rare Irrawaddy dolphin are among the animals that construction of dams may affect.
About Irrawaddy /Ayeyarwady River:
- It is the largest river in Myanmar.
- Originating from the confluence of the N’mai and Mali rivers, it flows from north to south before emptying through the Irrawaddy Delta in the Ayeyarwady Region into the Andaman Sea.
- Irrawaddy Tributaries:
- Left: Chindwin River, Mu River.
- Right: Myitnge.
Why in News?
- Myanmar’s junta has revived plans for a $3.6 billion Chinese-backed Myitsone dam in the north of the country that was suspended more than 10 years ago following huge public opposition.
