By Md. Fakrul Islam (auth.)
ISBN-10: 4431551719
ISBN-13: 9784431551713
ISBN-10: 4431551727
ISBN-13: 9784431551720
This ebook is the result of empirical examine at the sharing of water of the Teesta River, which flows via India and Bangladesh. the most goal is to teach how local cooperation among India and Bangladesh concerning sharing of Teesta River water can confirm optimum advantages for individuals residing within the quarter of the Teesta Basin situated within the nations. the writer takes an interdisciplinary procedure targeting the connection among availability of water and the relief of poverty within the Teesta Basin as an entire. The e-book offers findings of a comparative socioeconomic survey at the Dalia and Gazoldoba irrigable parts, with heritage info at the Teesta River and its beginning, spatio-physical nature, geomorphic and hydrological features, irrigation and water supply approach during the Gazoldoba barrage in India and the Dalia barrage in Bangladesh. mentioning the rules of transboundary freshwater sharing, this paintings makes a speciality of various ways to overseas water sharing and introduces an optimum method of dry season water sharing and welfare maximization by means of constructing a bilateral water sharing version. The version is confirmed via machine simulation, and an alternate water allocation coverage is proposed. Water Use and Poverty relief is extremely instructed to readers who search an optimal way to transboundary and bilateral water sharing and poverty relief issues.
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The Teesta with a large amount of water left over could not pass down the Atrai without causing floods. The excessive rains of 1787 suddenly brought down a vast flood of sand and choked the Atrai channel, with the result that the Teesta burst into very small Ghaghat River, and not finding sufficient outlet, overflowed the swept nearly the whole Rangpur district. The flood, or rather deluge, happened in a single day, August 27, 1787. Nearly a sixth of the population of the Rangpur district died in that year mainly due to the flood (Verghese 1990).
The Teesta with a large amount of water left over could not pass down the Atrai without causing floods. The excessive rains of 1787 suddenly brought down a vast flood of sand and choked the Atrai channel, with the result that the Teesta burst into very small Ghaghat River, and not finding sufficient outlet, overflowed the swept nearly the whole Rangpur district. The flood, or rather deluge, happened in a single day, August 27, 1787. Nearly a sixth of the population of the Rangpur district died in that year mainly due to the flood (Verghese 1990).
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