UNB, Dhaka :
The Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), a trustee organisation of the Water Resources Ministry, has identified 29 high risk spots for riverbank erosion in 2017 through a detailed study of satellite data.
Development organisation Brac is running an alert campaign in six upazilas of four districts, which are among the high-risk spots identified by CEGIS.
The areas are Roumari upazila of Kurigram, Sariakandi upazila of Bogra, Pangsha and Kalukhali upazilas of Rajbari and Jajira and Noria upazilas of Shariatpur distirict.
The Brac campaign is disseminating information to the local people about the intensity of bank erosion in these areas and consequent risk of loss.
Speakers revealed this information at an event titled ‘Consultative meeting on early warning for riverbank erosion’ on Monday. The Department of Disaster Management, CEGIS and Brac organised the event.
Experts at the meeting ascribed the current rise in the intensity of bank erosion to three main factors—- climate change impact, water level rise— in river systems during monsoon and recent change in the course of some major rivers.
Every year numerous people are becoming destitute overnight losing all their farmland and homesteads into the rivers, they said.
Speakers at the meeting also called on the government to take immediate measures for riverbank protection, building of new embankments and urgent repair work for damaged embankments.
The Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), a trustee organisation of the Water Resources Ministry, has identified 29 high risk spots for riverbank erosion in 2017 through a detailed study of satellite data.
Development organisation Brac is running an alert campaign in six upazilas of four districts, which are among the high-risk spots identified by CEGIS.
The areas are Roumari upazila of Kurigram, Sariakandi upazila of Bogra, Pangsha and Kalukhali upazilas of Rajbari and Jajira and Noria upazilas of Shariatpur distirict.
The Brac campaign is disseminating information to the local people about the intensity of bank erosion in these areas and consequent risk of loss.
Speakers revealed this information at an event titled ‘Consultative meeting on early warning for riverbank erosion’ on Monday. The Department of Disaster Management, CEGIS and Brac organised the event.
Experts at the meeting ascribed the current rise in the intensity of bank erosion to three main factors—- climate change impact, water level rise— in river systems during monsoon and recent change in the course of some major rivers.
Every year numerous people are becoming destitute overnight losing all their farmland and homesteads into the rivers, they said.
Speakers at the meeting also called on the government to take immediate measures for riverbank protection, building of new embankments and urgent repair work for damaged embankments.
