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The Ganges Water Diversion: Environmental Effects and Implications (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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The Ganges Water Diversion: Environmental Effects and Implications (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Series: Water Science and Technology Library, 49
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This book deals with environmental effects on both sides of the
border between Bangladesh and India caused by the Ganges water
diversion. This issue came to my attention in early 1976 when news
media in Bangladesh and overseas, began publications of articles on
the unilateral withdrawal of a huge quantity of water from the
Ganges River through the commissioning of the Farakka Barrage in
India. I first pursued the subject professionally in 1984 while
working as a contributor for Bangladesh Today, Holiday and New
Nation. During the next two decades, I followed the protracted
hydro-political negotiations between the riparian countries in the
Ganges basin, and I traveled extensively to observe the
environmental and ecological changes in Bangladesh as well as India
that occurred due to the water diversion. The Ganges, one of the
longest rivers of the world originates at the Gangotri glacier in
the Himalayas and flows across the plains of North India.
Eventually the river splits into two main branches and empties into
the Bay of Bengal. The conflict of diversion and sharing of the
Ganges water arose in the middle of the last century when the
government of India decided to implement a barrage at Farakka to
resolve a navigation problem at the Kolkata Port.
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