

<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Sitka Display&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-bidi;font-weight:normal">By 2029, China is severely short of potable
water. Her rivers are polluted and aquifers drying up. To overcome this very
serious problem, they conceived a project to divert Yarlung Tsangpo
(Brahmaputra River) from flowing south to India and Bangladesh to flowing north
to Northwest China. India protested against this project to the UN, who
referred it to the International Court of Justice. Both the Court and the UN held
that as the river originates in Tibet, a province of China, China was entitled
to alter the course of the river to suit her. India realized that unless Tibet
became independent, China would exploit the law as it stood and execute the
project. What follows in the book is how India prevents China from achieving
the diversion of the Brahmaputra through a combination of strategic thinking
and action. India^s actions brought China to a stage when she had to fight
against India including threatening the use of nuclear weapons. The book deals
with the Chinese and Indian actions as well as the contribution of Tibet to the
final settlement of what amounted to the world^s first water war. Though it is
a work of fiction, it could also qualify to be called Future History if the
plot as woven in the book begins to come true.</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Sitka Display&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">About the Author</span></strong></p>

<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Sitka Display&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Sundararajan
Padmanabhan</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
107%;font-family:&quot;Sitka Display&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;
font-weight:normal"> PVSM, AVSM, VSM is a former General Officer of the Indian
Army. He served as the 17th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army. Gen.
Padmanabhan succeeded General V.P. Malik on 30 September 2000. He also served
as Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee.</span></strong>