One of the great rivers of Asia, the Brahmaputra starts from the slopes of Kailash in Northern Tibet and ends at the Bay of Bengal. The river is both a blessing and a curse to the people of Assam. Every year during the monsoon it bursts out of its wide, shallow channel into the flood plain, and then leaves amazingly fertile land in its wake. During the dry winter months the Brahmaputra (Red River) turns …showed first 75 words of 518 total…

…showed last 75 words of 518 total…landless people. The population of Bangladesh is rising at about 2.5% per year and the main investment is in farming. Managing the river could be expensive, something that a third world country can’t afford. Government can educate people about safety during the floods and they could start predicting it. These facts make it inevitable that the damage done by future catastrophic floods will be even worse unless something is done to better manage flood impacts.