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Article: Drowned by politics. (Bangladesh)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1988
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FROM OUR INDIA CORRESPONDENT
ECOLOGISTS blame the Bangladesh floods on the deforestation of the Himalayas in India and Nepal. They are only partly right. Politics is holding up schemes that would consign such devastating floods to history.
Bangladesh suffers not only floods but drought. So do the adjoining Indian states of Bengal, Bihar and Assam. To tackle both, three things are needed: dams on the Brahmaputra river, storage reservoirs on the Himalayan tributaries of the Ganges and a canal to transfer surplus waters in the Brahmaputra to the water-deficient Ganges in the long dry season, from December to May.
Talks between India and Bangladesh ...
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