sluice gates
Unplanned sluice gates a curse for coastal districts
Once a fisherman, Sagir Hossain Somed, 55, of Dakshin Gilabad village of Pirojpur’s Mathbaria upazila, switched to farming after fish population depleted alarmingly within a few years of the construction of a sluice gate in neighbouring Dadhibhanga village.
Bhabadaha: A tale of sorrow
Once famed for the ingenuity of its 21 sluice gates designed to efficiently channel the water of several rivers through plains and
‘India didn’t do right by opening Farakka’
India did not do the right thing by opening the Farakka barrage, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu says reflecting on the flood situation it has caused in Bangladesh.
Unplanned sluice gates a curse for coastal districts
Once a fisherman, Sagir Hossain Somed, 55, of Dakshin Gilabad village of Pirojpur’s Mathbaria upazila, switched to farming after fish population depleted alarmingly within a few years of the construction of a sluice gate in neighbouring Dadhibhanga village.
Bhabadaha: A tale of sorrow
Once famed for the ingenuity of its 21 sluice gates designed to efficiently channel the water of several rivers through plains and
‘India didn’t do right by opening Farakka’
India did not do the right thing by opening the Farakka barrage, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu says reflecting on the flood situation it has caused in Bangladesh.
