But the full exploitation of hydro potential would damage immensely the livelihoods of tens of millions of people living downstream in the plains of the Mekong, Salween and Brahmaputrarivers.
全力开发水电将会严重损害邻国的利益，包括那些居住在湄公河、萨尔温江及怒江下游平原的几千万居民。
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Nutrients from the two great rivers of Ganges and Brahmaputra feed the soil of the paddies in the low-lying Ganges Delta.
来自两条大河，恒河和雅鲁藏布江的养分滋润着地势低洼的恒河三角洲的稻谷。
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"We show that meltwater is extremely important in the Indus basin and important for the Brahmaputra basin," they wrote, "but plays only a modest role for the Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow rivers."