Syed Hasnain, a scientist who monitors the glaciers, warns that if the current rate continues, “rivers such as the Ganges, the Indus and the Brahmaputra, which receive about 70 to 80 per cent of their water from snow and glacial melt, will dry up. ”
परंतु, २०२० सालापर्यंत चीन सर्वात अग्रगण्य असेल असा अंदाज केला जातो.