‘Another Bangladesh emerging from Bay’

[TopCat]

Give us a call when you want to build some reclaimed land, pretty much the entire Hong Kong seafront is built on reclaimed land.

And a Mainland company is planning to build an entire artificial island, similar to the artificial island on which we built our airport.

Let's work together. More China-Bangladesh cooperation is always welcome.

You already given 10 billion dollar deep sea port, 3 billion dollar Padma bridge, 4 billion dollar power plants.. and i am sure there are a lot more... Yes Bangladeshis love Chinese people.

 

[the just]

Give us a call when you want to build some reclaimed land, pretty much the entire Hong Kong seafront is built on reclaimed land.

And a Mainland company is planning to build an entire artificial island, similar to the artificial island on which we built our airport.

Let's work together. More China-Bangladesh cooperation is always welcome.

Our stupid politicians who actually run our country most probably haven't heard yet ,that land can be reclaimed from sea.
By the time they will understand this valuable information ,they will most probably call the most inept country to do the job.And in the process drain us dry with the help of our political leaders. Of course.

 

[wolfschanzze]

Most of the land of Bangladesh are actually silt over rivers. Bangladesh is a riverine country. More rivers and less land. Due to global warming Southern regoin of Bangladesh will shrink in Bay of Bengal. That is alarming situation.

Population density is also high in Bangladesh and West Bengal. If sea level rises it will be a massacre in Bengal.

Sea level rise risks land accretion in bay
june 5, 2014


Despite the trend of land accretion in the bay, the country is still at risk from the impact of a rise in sea level triggered by the global warming, say observers.
According to different climate studies, the sea level at the bay has been rising gradually in conjunction with the global rise.

The 5th Assessment Report of Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests that the country’s sea level rises at the rate of 1.5 millimeter (mm) annually, while the global trend is 2mm.

The report was based on sea level data between 1970 and 2010.

It said if the current trend continues, the country will see an annual 5mm sea level rise by 2100, while the global rise will be 6mm.

However, the IPCC 4th Assessment Report shows that the global rise during 1961 to 1993 was 1.8mm per year while the rate was almost double at 3.1mm per year between 1993 and 2003.

The report said of the 3.1mm sea level rise, factors like carbon emission contributed to 2.8mm of the rise.

Experts say the country’s coastal belt, mostly adjacent to the bay, are being highly vulnerable to scarcity of fresh water because of salt water intrusion from the sea.

A large portion of coastal arable land had already been contaminated by extreme salinity due to sea level

rise, said Dr Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, executive director of Center for Global Changes.

He added that the inhabitants in coastal districts had been suffering from potable water scarcity.

A number of studies suggest that climate change leads to frequent natural disasters like cyclones, depressions in the bay and floods.

Regarding the land accretion in the bay, Maminul Haque Sarker, deputy executive director of the Center for Environmental and Geographical Information Services, said with the rise in sea level, the main impact on the estuary would clearly be governed by the reduced flow of water and sediment input from upstream through the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers.

He observed that the major part of tidal plain in Bangladesh wouldn’t receive any sediment and suffer drainage problems and the formation of new land in the Meghna estuary will continue at a lower rate depending on the rate of sea level rise.

Maminul Haque Sarker said the construction of cross dams towards the end of 1950s and in the early 1960s led to land accretion of several hundred kilometres, but now the sediment input to the estuary has been reduced and the rate of land acquisition has slowed down.




- See more at: Sea level rise risks land accretion in bay | Dhaka Tribune

Good news for india,now you can take back your pole vaulters and place them in that land

 

[extra terrestrial]

We have been hearing all these fancy talks since our childhood. But, in reality, even the South Ta;patti Island that emerged a few cm. above the sea level has submerged again.

But it's actually possible, take Nijhum Dwip for example. It emerged sometime around 1950s and still surviving.

 

[livingdead]

Sometimes, I wonder, if BD needs any new land. We have enough land, but you do not see it on the maps. BD looks very tiny, but its arable land area is about 3 times larger than the arable land of Japan. Thing is, even if you make the land area 10 times larger than what BD is today, the gain will not last for many years, only because of our religion and culture.

Muslims are fond of sticking to polygamy. Once more land is available, Muslims of BD would love to take multiple wives and the rate of increase of population will increase to say, 3%. So, if more land produces more mouths to feed what is the necessity of that extra land, any way.

Similar things have happened here only in the recent past. Many Hindus left BD for India after the partition in 1947 and the Muslims bought those lands. But, the situation for the Muslims did not improve, because many families have not discarded the policy of taking many children.

People here are now practicing birth control only because land has become scare and expensive. The achievement for the last sixty years will go down the drain once our people get hold of bigger land area. So, I may not cherish the prospect of finding land in the BoB.

poorer people tend to have bigger family. Polygamy does not necessarily increase children.
Once people link their own future wellbeing with their children's education, they will stop making too many children as healthcare and education is expensive. Rich and educated parents have fewer children.
Also now a days, having fewer children is socially more acceptable.

 

[arp2041]

@MBI Munshi now tell your brethren to not pole vault now instead swim to new BD!!!!