Wow
@bluesky , so you too caught red handed and also not the first time? I thought that you two are bosom friends!
Instead of talking fuzzy things as usual, how about analyzing the new Teesta project? I am pasting my previous post here for you to make a quick answer on it if you all can and prove my points wrong without making personal attacks like that
@idune.
"Bold part: The above three lines speak of the main two goals of the new Teesta project. A little elaborately speaking,
1) One is to
control flood during the rainy season that causes havoc in the surrounding areas destroying houses, paddy and other agriculture goods.
2)The second is to
hold/retain water in the river for use to irrigate farmlands during dry season.
But, I find the project portfolio inconsistent with these targets.
1) It says of narrowing the width from the
current 12km to just 2km. I wonder, if the authority has properly analysed the discharge capacity through so narrow a channel. The discharge capacity (
Q) is a function of other variables like the co-efficient of resistance (
n), slope/gradient (
S), velocity of flow (
V), cross-sectional area of water flow (
A), and the hydraulic radius (
R).
I think '
R' may be difficult for many people here to understand, so, I will not explain it. But, both
'A' and 'R' depend upon the size and shape of a channel/river. It is obvious that there will be less quantity of water flow through a 2km wide Teesta than it would have been with a wider one, say, 8km. It is not exactly as low as the 1/4th of what would have been with a 8km one. It is a little more complex than that which I will not discuss here.
2) The portfolio speaks of retaining water for dry season use. Can someone tell me how can water be retained in large quantity when there is
no proposal to build another barrage at the downstream part of Teesta, say, 1km above the juncture with Jamuna/Brahmaputra. Only a barrage 90 km downstream from the present one can create a reservoir for water to be used in the dry season use.
In my opinion, selecting the current Teesta Barrage site was a wrong one. Rather, it should have been built at the site I am proposing here. It would be a double mistake if a project is undertaken without another barrage. It will cause more harm to the country's economic future.
I sincerely want people here to go through the short opinion I have forwarded instead of bullying me for saying something unusual but correct.
Please prove me wrong instead of saying such and such big international consulting companies have recommended the project
without another downstream barrage. The thing is, they follow what our ignorant BD authority instructs them to do.
There are but a very few original engineering planners in the country. Govt civil engineers only do what they are ordered to do, they are not asked to do the planning like it is in the developed countries. Our MPs and ministers with peasant background are the planners".
. This was the real uncompromising leader , the mother of democracy .
