More on Pareechu from Nature

Nature magazine seems to have picked up the crisis over Pareechu lake in August with this article:

"Crisis foments as unstable lake builds in the Himalayas: Indian scientists say China is denying access to dammed river" Nature, 18 August 2004.

This claim seems to fly in the face of the news reports that painted a rosier picture of trans-Himalayan cooperation in the post-flood period. However, this article appeared relatively early, when little was known about the potential danger of the lake flooding the Sutlej, so maybe things did improve afterwards. Nevertheless, it does reveal how the information remains tightly controled on both sides.