The one thing i posted about in another tread about river diversion ( i really wish we could copy-pasta those posts here as i did spend some effort looking up numbers ) that didnt get any responses and i am curious as to what the patriots here think of the idea of diverting Indus:
First, when it comes to river diversion, abandon any and all thought of 'we will cut channel straight through 80km of himalayan main ridge that is 6km high on average and just dump indus into pehlgam'.
That is minecraft logic, not reality.
The indus enters India carrying about 20% of the water it carries as it exists Kashmir. The biggest tributary of Indus is Shyok- which is biggerthan the Indus itself in water volume at point of confluence.
So shyok + Indus =45-50% of indus water.
So looking at geography, the ONLY way to divert indus, is if you cut a short chanel across ONE ridge along the indus - just 20-30km north of demchok and make indus fall into Pangong Tso lake.
The Shyok also comes within 2km of pangong Tso and is also connectable to it by a short-cut over one ridge.
Then once it falls into Pangong Tso, China can cut a channel through relatively flat tibet and either just create a massive inter-connected bigger lake district in tibet to absorb indus-shyok waters or cut a channel all the way to the Kunlun and make it fall into the Khotan river and make Xinjiang 10 times greener - as this 'river' will literally double the water output to xinjiang.
China will be HAPPILY onboard this plan, because China cannot do it alone without war - Indus only becomes divertable to Pangong Tso inside of Ladakh and Shyok is all inside Ladakh before it goes on to Baltitstan to fall into indus.
But question is, what do YOU, the Indian patriot, think of this ??
Because if we do this, there is no going back - you cannot 're-fill' cut ridgeline channels effectively- concrete erodes a lot quicker under water abrasion than rock.
And this is PERMANENTLY gifting an Indian river the size of Krishna river to China and withering the western Indian subcontinent.
But the pro is, this *IS* fatal hit to pakistan. You do this, Pakistan dies as a country, PERIOD.
So whats the choice patriots would take, i am curious - do you kill your arch-nemesis by fucking over indian subcontinent a bit or do you tolerate arch-nemesis and dont take away Sindhu from hindu ?
