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Humans cannot live without technology. This should not be understood to mean that technology drives humans and changes society.
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Mark Kurlansky, Paper: Paging Through History (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), p. xiv.
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A.K.M. Shafiul Azam, et al., “Fishing Gears and Crafts Commonly Used at Hatiya Island: A Coastal Region of Bangladesh,” Asian Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 8, Number 1, 2014, pp. 55–56.
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Imtiaz Ahmed, op. cit., 2015, p. 68.
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See, https://scroll.in/article/815066/over-50-years-ago-bengals-chief-engineer-predicted-that-the-farakka-dam-would-flood-bihar. Accessed on 20 January 2018.
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Cited in Ashis Nandy, “Dams and dissent: India’s first modern environmental activist and his critique of the DVC project, in the Special Issue: Water Futures in South Asia, Guest Editor, Imtiaz Ahmed, Futures, London, Elsevier Science Limited, Volume 33, Number 8/9, October/November 2001, p. 722.
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Sk. Akhtar Ahmad, Manzurul Haque Khan, Mushfiqul Haque, “Arsenic contamination in groundwater in Bangladesh: implications and challenges for healthcare policy,” Risk Management and Healthcare Policy (Macclesfield: Dovepress, 2018), p. 253. Cited from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281155/. Accessed on 19 March 2021.
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Ibid., p. 252.
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Ibid., p. 253. See also, MS. Islam and F. Islam, “Arsenic Contamination In Groundwater In Bangladesh: An Environmental and Social Disaster,” the international water association (IWA) publishing, 2013. Cited from https://www.iwapublishing.com/news/arsenic-contamination-groundwater-bangladesh-environmental-and-social-disaster. Accessed on 22 May 2020.
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Ahmad et al. (2018), p. 251.
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Islam and Islam, op. cit.
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Ibid.
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See, http://www.btrc.gov.bd/bangabandhu-satellite-1. Accessed on 24 May 2020.
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“Cyclone Amphan: Death toll rises to 26,” Dhaka Tribune, 21 May 2020.
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Vedika Sud and Prema Rajaram, “Cyclone Amphan caused an estimated $13.2 billion in damage in India’s West Bengal: government source,” CNN Cable News, 22 May 2020. Cited from: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/22/weather/cyclone-amphan-damage-intl-hnk/index.html. Accessed on 26 May 2020.
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Colin J. Gleason, Pierre-André Garambois, and Michael T. Durand, “Tracking river flows from space,” Eos, 98, 26 July 2017. Cited from: https://eos.org/science-updates/tracking-river-flows-from-space. Accessed on 24 May 2020.
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Ibid.
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Ahmed, I. (2021). Technology and the Rights of Rivers. In: Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0_8
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