India to Link Rivers - Got courts green light - Expart fear disaster in BD

[Deepak123]

I would support any move to inter-link the INDIAN rivers, at the same time the neighbours dont have to worry as we always stand by the legal agreements that have been signed in the past regarding water sharing.
Besides a surpless of water is from the Ganges and Bramaputra is wasted by BD with out being consumed into the bay of bengal.

Bangladeshi thinks 100% water of Ganga river belong to them right from Gangotri Glacier.

 

[ARCHON]

BD can use D.Link

 

[Zabaniyah]

The river-linking project was first devised in 1980 and has been under discussion ever since, reports BBC.

Jesus Christ...that's 32 years Srsly? What kind of morons are running this country?

 

[Indian Tiger]

I hope this project wont get delayed any further.. It will be more helpful to avoid floods.

In 2007 when cuddalore was flooded due to heavy rain and i was also the one who stuck in that, almost every year this is happening. After the completion of this project, i hope such things wont happen.

 

[Foo_Fighter]

Jesus Christ...that's 32 years Srsly? What kind of morons are running this country?

The one whom we elected since Independence... what about you?

 

[ashokdeiva]

Jesus Christ...that's 32 years Srsly? What kind of morons are running this country?

this is how a country this complex and being the largest democracy will work.
but this has been effective for us in earning both domestic and international respect so far.

 

[Zabaniyah]

The one whom we elected since Independence... what about you?

Elections are only part of a democracy.

Bangladesh is not a full democracy. It was under dictators for some time. If it had been a full or at least a flawed democracy, then this issue would have been solved long ago.

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this is how a country this complex and being the largest democracy will work.
but this has been effective for us in earning both domestic and international respect so far.

I meant my country mate. Not India.

 

[Foo_Fighter]

Elections are only part of a democracy.

Bangladesh is not a full democracy. It was under dictators for some time. If it had been a full or at least a flawed democracy, then this issue would have been solved long ago.

Then once when it becomes a full/more mature democracy it will also take these long term strategic decisions. I really like Bangladesh cause they make awesome food and are friendly. let's learn from each other

 

[ashokdeiva]

I meant my country mate. Not India.

sorry there, my mistake/

 

[Foo_Fighter]

I meant my country mate. Not India.

Oh sorry I just saw this. My mistake as well.

 

[illusion8]

we tamils have been pleading for the same all these years...hope they start the penisular segment -interlinking soon

and actually we wanted the ganges interlinked with the sourthern rivers...though might be too much to ask.....

I pity the tamils, they are one of the very hardworking bunch of people in india and excellent in agriculture with extreme shortage of water. This plan was envisaged by A B Vajpayee wish the BJP had a second term to see its fruition.

 

[ashokdeiva]

I pity the tamils, they are one of the very hardworking bunch of people in india and excellent in agriculture with extreme shortage of water. This plan was envisaged by A B Vajpayee wish the BJP had a second term to see its fruition.

Sorry mate, I am too from tamil nadu. what you say about us being hardworking is wrong, we used to hardworkers in agricultural fields. Since our past CM has made a mess to the agri industry with 100 rs work schema. No one is working hard as it used to be.
Agri labours are demanding more money but doing less work.
I myself own 30 acres of agri land, and i cultivate coconut, chiku, nagmet plants and you know what, Assame work force work better than Tamil Nadu work force. Even I am thinking of employing Assamess.

 

[Deepak123]

we tamils have been pleading for the same all these years...hope they start the penisular segment -interlinking soon

and actually we wanted the ganges interlinked with the sourthern rivers...though might be too much to ask.....

Yes we can construct a canal to deliver water to South India through our East Coast. Eastern India has too much water and we should deliver extra to the needy South.

 

[illusion8]

Sorry mate, I am too from tamil nadu. what you say about us being hardworking is wrong, we used to hardworkers in agricultural fields. Since our past CM has made a mess to the agri industry with 100 rs work schema. No one is working hard as it used to be.
Agri labours are demanding more money but doing less work.
I myself own 30 acres of agri land, and i cultivate coconut, chiku, nagmet plants and you know what, Assame work force work better than Tamil Nadu work force. Even I am thinking of employing Assamess.

I own a coconut plantation in Pollachi of about 65 acres the whole farm is managed by one person who is 70 years old, pls don't ever tell me tamils are not hard workers. I still remember as a kid my father shifting a whole textile unit from Mumbai to CBE in the 90's. The whole equipment all 40 truckloads unloaded and erected by 3 tamil youths. In India the most hardworking as per my perception are the Punjabis, Biharis, UP, and the Tamils nobody comes close to their hardwork.

 

[integra]

'Saline death' for half the country

Sea water will intrude Manikganj, Kushtia, Goalanda, Bhairab and beyond, travelling 280 kilometres if India implements its controversial river-linking project.

And, biodiversity of almost half of the country, including the mangrove forest Sundarbans, will be ruined, experts say.

A study conducted five years ago by Bangladeshi experts to know the project impacts assessed that about 30,000 square kilometres of Khulna and Barisal divisions and parts of Rajshahi and Dhaka divisions including the capital would be severely affected.

“We basically conducted a qualitative study based on information we got from several sources. The effect could be even worse,” said a senior hydro and geo-environment analyst.

There will be no flow in the north-western rivers -- the Teesta, Mahananda, Dharla and Dudhkumar -- during the monsoon as water will be diverted to the river Fulhar through Mechi.

The mega plan that involves linking 30 major rivers and diverting the Ganges and the Brahmaputra has remained highly contentious since it was first devised in 1980.

Environmentalists and neighbouring countries were against it, saying the scheme would wreak havoc on ecology of the entire region.

India maintains the Rs 5,000-crore project will increase its irrigation coverage from 120 million hectares to 160 millions and boost up crop production.

The issue drew attention of Bangladeshi and Indian media again after the Indian Supreme Court on Monday ordered quick implementation of the project and appointed a high-powered committee to put it into action.

Biodiversity, agriculture and industry of the Ganges dependable area (GDA) -- both sides of the river Padma -- and parts of the Meghna river bank will be badly hit. GDA alone covers 20 percent of the country and is home to around 30 million people.

“Life of residents in a large area would be devastated due to lack of sweet water,” said M Inamul Haque, chairman of Water and Environment, a non-government organisation.

The river-linking project aims diverting river water from Indian north-eastern region, an area with high rainfall (3,500mm a year) to its west, a region with low rainfall (700 mm), causing a very high-cost environmental degradation not only in Bangladesh but also in some parts of India, he said.

“It would destroy the biodiversity in half of the country's plain land and wetland.”

The assessment report of Bangladeshi experts echoed the view of Inamul Haque. They forecast several impacts that include reduction in river flows, rise in salinity of soil, surface and groundwater, damage of agriculture, fisheries, navigation routes, coastal biodiversity and fisheries, increase in river erosion, decrease in sedimentation and ruining.

The experts who conducted the study do not want to be names at the moment.

The say if the Indian project is implemented, water from the Bay would travel in 280km through the Madhumati, Dhaleshwari, Padma and Meghna rivers.

The mighty Brahmaputra, which is known as the Jamuna and which meets up two-thirds of the country's demand of water during the dry seasons, will loose navigation.

The flows of some other rivers -- Gorai, Madhumati, Nabagnaga, Ichhamati-Mathabhanga, Kapotakkhya, Betna, Meghna, Surma, Kushiara, Old Brahmaputra, Dhaleshwari, Buriganga, Shitalakkhya, Arial Kha and Turag -- will be reduced.

The scheme would require construction of large barrages to store water for lean period. India will have to release water during the monsoon. As a result, floods in Bangladesh would be prolonged, said a young hydrologist who also conducted a portion of the study.

The report also says the river project would cause water inundations in Barisal and Noakhali districts.


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