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The Padma Barrage: Ignoring historical warnings
Dhaka Tribune

The Padma Barrage: Ignoring historical warnings

Before the barrages, before the embankments, before the Krug Mission and the Flood Action Plan and the Ecnec approvals that now arrive every few decades bearing price tags in the billions -- before any of this, there was the bend. The Kopai River carves a sharp turn through the Rarh region of western Bengal, a landscape of laterite soil that turns the water rust-red in monsoon. At this bend,... Details

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