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International-UN-NGOs
World seen winning battle of water scarcity , but...
2005-09-11
...Reuters reporter can only find one quote and no facts that support the conference's findings. Gloom, doom, agony, despair, Fairbanks.
Posted by:Seafarious

#3  I think its an example of river capture that the embankment failed to stop.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-09-11 03:15  

#2  The Ganges breached an embankment on Saturday and has started flowing into the Pagla.

Local officials, who earlier denied the possibility of the two rivers joining, now say 20 villages are endangered.

Sounds like deliberate diversion to me. "Breached an Embankment?" Was dynamite used, or just bulldozers.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-09-11 02:07  

#1  On the subject of water, the Ganges is forming a new route to the sea through India rather than Bangladesh.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-09-11 02:02  

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