Open problems · Water, floods & drought
Brahmaputra floods and erosion
Assam floods every year, and its rivers keep eating away villages and river islands.
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What we know
The Brahmaputra and the Barak flood every year. Erosion means villages and river islands keep shrinking; Majuli and Dibrugarh are losing land.
Open questions
- How much has been spent on embankments and erosion control in the last ten years, and where?
- How many families have lost their land to erosion, and how many were given new land?
- What has worked against river erosion in other countries with large, shifting rivers?
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