Article: Water level of Padma at record low, THE INDEPENDENT


The Independent (Bangladesh)
12-15-2004
URL: http://independent-bangladesh.com/
Dec 14:The water level of the river Padma has gone down to a record low
well before the start of the dry season and the river bed from Lalgola
point in West Bengal to Bagha in Rajshahi is full of sand and silts.
It is reliably learnt that, no water was released from the Farakka
barrage in India in river Padma this year even during the monsoon because
the water was diverted to other rivers in India by breaching the 30 year-
long water sharing contract. As a result Bangladesh, the lower riparian
part of Ganges basin, remained without water even at the full monsoon season.

Experts apprehend an ecological disaster in the ...

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