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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Bangladesh Water blessing and a curse.

For almost half a year, monsoon rains, the three main rivers, the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna and their tributaries caused to swell. The results are often disastrous floods. The rest of the season is almost no rainfall during the dry years, drought and the threat of population welfare and health of the natural environment.
Kaptai Dam, inaugurated in early 1960 was the first major dam in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), the country's largest hydroelectric project was built, still. 22,000 hectares farmland and more than 18,000 homes were filled container path. Hajong tribes lost their land and homes, rehabilitation of the 100,000 indigenous people not to print the information. Most of them are in the Bara parang (local color language "shit), called Patches.
Is. Large dams in neighboring Myanmar, Bangladesh, a hydroelectric power in the future will be a new source

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