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The Ganges Water Diversion: Environmental Effects and Implications

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Editors:
  1. M. Monirul Qader Mirza

    1. Adaptation and Impacts Research Group (AIRG), Environment Canada, c/o Institute for Environmental Studies (IES), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 49)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Ganges Water Diversion: Environmental Effects and Implications — An Introduction

    • M. Monirul Qader Mirza
    Pages 1-12

  3. Hydrological Changes in Bangladesh

    • M. Monirul Qader Mirza
    Pages 13-37

  4. Role of Farakka Barrage on the Disastrous 1998 Flood in Malda (West Bengal)

    • S. K. Mazumder
    Pages 39-48

  5. Impact of Upstream Human Interventions on the Morphology of the Ganges-Gorai System

    • Maminul Hague Sarker
    Pages 49-80

  6. Effects on Water Salinity in Bangladesh

    • M. Monirul Qader Mirza, Maminul Haque Sarker
    Pages 81-102

  7. Farakka Barrage and its Impact on the Hydrology and Fishery of Hooghly Estuary

    • M. Sinha
    Pages 103-124

  8. Implications on Ecosystems in Bangladesh

    • Ansarul Karim
    Pages 125-161

  9. Watering the Bangladeshi Sundarbans

    • Alan Potkin
    Pages 163-176

  10. Adverse Effects on Agriculture in the Ganges Basin in Bangladesh

    • M. Monirul Qader Mirza, Md. Altaf Hossain
    Pages 177-196

  11. Environmental Impacts of the Ganges Water Diversion and its International Legal Aspects

    • Md. Nazrul Islam
    Pages 197-221

  12. Watching the Farakka Barrage: Role of Media

    • Moinuddin Naser, Harun-Ur-Rashid, Farzana Abdulhusein
    Pages 223-246

  13. Vulnerability to the Ganges Water Diversion: Adaptation and Coping Mechanisms

    • M. Monirul Qader Mirza
    Pages 247-285

  14. The Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty: Risk Analysis of the Negotiated Discharge

    • M. Monirul Qader Mirza
    Pages 287-303

  15. Regional Cooperation on Water and Environment in the Ganges Basin: Bangladesh Perspectives

    • Q. K. Ahmad, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed
    Pages 305-325

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 327-367
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This book deals with environmental effects on both sides of the border between Bangladesh and India caused by the Ganges water diversion. This issue came to my attention in early 1976 when news media in Bangladesh and overseas, began publications of articles on the unilateral withdrawal of a huge quantity of water from the Ganges River through the commissioning of the Farakka Barrage in India. I first pursued the subject professionally in 1984 while working as a contributor for Bangladesh Today, Holiday and New Nation. During the next two decades, I followed the protracted hydro-political negotiations between the riparian countries in the Ganges basin, and I traveled extensively to observe the environmental and ecological changes in Bangladesh as well as India that occurred due to the water diversion. The Ganges, one of the longest rivers of the world originates at the Gangotri glacier in the Himalayas and flows across the plains of North India. Eventually the river splits into two main branches and empties into the Bay of Bengal. The conflict of diversion and sharing of the Ganges water arose in the middle of the last century when the government of India decided to implement a barrage at Farakka to resolve a navigation problem at the Kolkata Port.

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  • Adaptation and Impacts Research Group (AIRG), Environment Canada, c/o Institute for Environmental Studies (IES), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    M. Monirul Qader Mirza

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