Water grid programme set to connect India with Bangladesh seamlessly

[namefield_empty]

True much of Brahmaputras water comes from its tributaries as Tibet is arid and rain shadow zone because of Himalayas , to control Brahmaputra flooding we can divert its water to arid regions of northern Madhya Pradesh through river linking

Diverting the river water will not prevent floods due to the inherent nature of the river which changes course frequently and also due to the topography of Assam-low lying flood plains. Several other methods are envisioned and are being applied like reinforcing the embankments, dredging the river and using the product to build Expressways both sides of the river. Even then the ever shifting nature of the river make things very hard. More than half of my hometown including many historical monuments have been swallowed by the river since the infamous 15th August 1950.

The Kosi river with its alluvial fan, a much smaller river compared to the Brahmaputra couldn't be tamed as it changes course(due to a different reason) bringing grief to the state of Bihar. Just imagine the task at hand!

About river interlinking, we will face same problems as China but having to transport water against the gradient (natural course is towards the Ganges) through the Vindhya, Satpuras and the Deccan plateau.

Secondy, there are hawkish elements here like the one from Assam that appears during 0.25 in the first video shared by Bilal. People like that will try to create fear in the state unnecessarily about the rest of India stealing Assam's waters. For example, in the video shared he knows that Chinese dams would have no impact here but still makes an issue to further his agenda.

 

[Goku]

Diverting the river water will not prevent floods due to the inherent nature of the river which changes course frequently and also due to the topography of Assam-low lying flood plains. Several other methods are envisioned and are being applied like reinforcing the embankments, dredging the river and using the product to build Expressways both sides of the river. Even then the ever shifting nature of the river make things very hard. More than half of my hometown including many historical monuments have been swallowed by the river since the infamous 15th August 1950.

The Kosi river with its alluvial fan, a much smaller river compared to the Brahmaputra couldn't be tamed as it changes course(due to a different reason) bringing grief to the state of Bihar. Just imagine the task at hand!

About river interlinking, we will face same problems as China but having to transport water against the gradient (natural course is towards the Ganges) through the Vindhya, Satpuras and the Deccan plateau.

Secondy, there are hawkish elements here like the one from Assam that appears during 0.25 in the first video shared by Bilal. People like that will try to create fear in the state unnecessarily about the rest of India stealing Assam's waters. For example, in the video shared he knows that Chinese dams would have no impact here but still makes an issue to further his agenda.

Last paragraph is most dangerous element of our society and a hindrance to our development
Dredging will not work as Brahmaputra transports lots of soil from upper region
Brahmaputra is too big to tame , only thing we can do is lessen its flooding effects , here we cannot control floods but instead we need to focus on flood management because its a temporary phenomenon
Building dams or embankments are outdated ways instead we need to develop early warning tools by studying flooding data so that we cn warn people to evacuate early. This will also save the costs of disaster management
Also we can do is creating small artificial canals from Brahmaputra such that they will used only in case of the river beaching embankments so that excess water can be transported , we cna cooperate with Bangladesh for this , or creating artificial ponds and lakes to accommodate excess water
Last but not the least , reviving dead wetlands caused due to encroachment which absorb excesss waters during floods

 

[namefield_empty]

Last but not the least , reviving dead wetlands caused due to encroachment which absorb excesss waters during floods

I am going to stress on the quoted part as you have beautifully elaborated other aspects in your post.

Wetlands or beels as they are called in Assam are of prime importance and there are several notified (Ramsar convention) and non-notified beels and ox-bow lakes in Assam. The illegals have encroached upon these wetlands (those not notified) and now claim them as their property! Then we have the idiots in the municipal corporations dumping wastes in some of them and to make things worse some are given to the corporations to erect hotels and other commercial structures.

Results are right before us, Guwahati or for that matter my hometown which never saw floods and waterlogging now reel under knee deep artificial and man-made floods after a bout of heavy shower.

Last paragraph is most dangerous element of our society and a hindrance to our development

Multidisciplinary approach is required, river interlinking will serve no purpose if we don't take steps to prevent misuse of groundwater in agriculture, construction, bottling plants etc.

 

[khansaheeb]

Do Ganges, Brahmaputra rivers look canal to you?

No not at all but I based my post on -"The 1400-km long National Waterway-1 will be connected to the 1,600 km long India-Bangladesh protocol route via National Waterway-2, which is roughly 900 km in length. "

It implies the connection isn't there so a canal would be built to join them. Just an observation. If they are already connected then why use "will be connected"?

 

[namefield_empty]

No not at all but I based my post on -"The 1400-km long National Waterway-1 will be connected to the 1,600 km long India-Bangladesh protocol route via National Waterway-2, which is roughly 900 km in length. "

It implies the connection isn't there so a canal would be built to join them. Just an observation. If they are already connected then why use "will be connected"?

National waterways in India are stretches of river/s suitable for inland transport. You can view the numerical list here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Waterways_in_India

 

[fallstuff]

Bilal guy at his clueless best, as usual. Brahmaputra is just about 200 metres from my house in Assam and we have a clear view of the river from our third floor terrace. In times like these during monsoons it is difficult distinguish it from an angry sea, the other bank barely visible. And that remains the same all year round.

Length of Dhola-Sadiya bridge(Bhupen Hazarika Setu) in our neighbouring district is 9150 metres. Bogibeel bridge in my place is 5000 metres long. Kolia Bhomora bridge in Tezpur is 3015 metres. Naranarayan setu in lower Assam is 2.2 kms long.

Dibang river bridge in Arunachal over a tributary of the Brahmaputra is 6200 metres long. Three out of the top 4 river bridges in India are built over the Brahmaputra and that ignoramus thinks that Brahmaputra is a canal!!

The bridges in Bangladesh pales in comparison to ours and BD has done a poor job connecting both banks of the Jamuna wrt to their other rivers.

Dhola-Sadiya bridge is a two lane bridge.
Jamuna bridge has 4 lanes for automobile, train line, telecommunication, natural gas, and power line.

You gotta mortgage or sell entire Assam to build a bridge like Jamuna bridge !

 

[Doctor Strange]

Connectivity is good. But Indians have this wet dream of diverting whole Brahmaputra water through a corridor using BD. Thats the concern. Right now they can only divert some tributaries coming from Bhutan. They literally turned whole North Bengal a barren field by diverting Teesta river.

 

[namefield_empty]

Dhola-Sadiya bridge is a two lane bridge.
Jamuna bridge has 4 lanes for automobile, train line, telecommunication, natural gas, and power line.

You gotta mortgage or sell entire Assam to build a bridge like Jamuna bridge !

Another avant-garde ignoramus of the Bangladeshi stock trying to rear his ugly head in vain!

The Dhola-Sadiya bridge is almost twice the length of your Jamuna bridge. Bridges are built for communication not decoration, there was absolutely no need to build a four-lane bridge for connecting Assam to Arunachal which has a very low population density. We needed a robust bridge that can stand the test of time and also for military purposes, and that we have done successfully.

OTOH, people are stuffed in your Dhaka like maggots inside a carcass and there are long hours of traffic jams leading to the city that brings life to a virtual standstill. It makes more sense for you to build 4 lanes/8 lanes and what not!

There are SEVEN big bridges built over the main channel of the Brahmaputra and many others on the tributaries. Almost all of the major cities in Assam are built on the banks of the Brahmaputra.

Now compare this to your Shonar Bangla, no cities worth mentioning is on the immediate banks of your Jamuna, only a single bridge over the Jamuna that too in the lower reaches of the river and you Bangladeshis are having an eye-rolling moment over it, lol..

There is absolutely no development connectivity and infrastructure in your Mymemsing district around the banks of Jamuna, those people are being discriminated against and are much poorer than those from Dhaka, Sylhet or Chittagong.

These people have no choice but to illegally cross over to Assam to earn a decent living for themselves as your state has neglected them.

 

[Bilal9]

Connectivity is good. But Indians have this wet dream of diverting whole Brahmaputra water through a corridor using BD. Thats the concern. Right now they can only divert some tributaries coming from Bhutan. They literally turned whole North Bengal a barren field by diverting Teesta river.

Diverting rivers is a plan that backfires after a while. Rivers have natural drainage characteristics, to defy them is to invite expensive man-made disaster. Look at the flooding that is happening upstream in Bihar because of water not draining properly through Farakka and Hooghly. On top of this, Indians are too cheap and disorganized to dredge their rivers on regular basis, so it is a double-whammy. Like I say - payback is a B*TCH!

On top of this, Chaiwala and his Sanghi cohorts will never pull off these wet-dream interlinking canal projects. Indians are not Chinese!

Enough said.

Dhola-Sadiya bridge is a two lane bridge.
Jamuna bridge has 4 lanes for automobile, train line, telecommunication, natural gas, and power line.

You gotta mortgage or sell entire Assam to build a bridge like Jamuna bridge !

Agreed 100% on that last point.

These backwoods Ahom morons have no clue what type of technology was used to make a bridge like the Jamuna bridge. And they have the gall to compare it with one of their 'Bharti Teknalaji' cement contraptions.

Some idiots are comparing Padma Bridge with the cheap garbage piece-of-crap Bogibeel contraption.

Too funny.

For Jamuna Bridge they studied the river's hydraulics for the last recorded 200 years to ensure river training occurs properly, even in the peak monsoon season. It was a massive undertaking that will stand there for the next one hundred years and pilings were driven deep deep underground under riverbed to ensure stability. you can't use the likes of cheap-@$$ low-rent ahom throwaway projects because at Jamuna Bridge site the river is far deeper and wider, especially during monsoon.

These idiots jump up and down about their two-lane garbage bridges built on shallow pilings where rivers are not anywhere as deep or wide as what we have. Idiots.

 

[namefield_empty]

As they say that a picture is worth a thousand words, let us compare the infrastructure and settlements on both the banks of the Brahmaputra/Jamuna in Bangladesh vis-a-vis Assam. There are some tell-tale signs!
Bangladesh

India(Assam)

Enough said!!

 

[Homo Sapiens]

About river interlinking, we will face same problems as China but having to transport water against the gradient (natural course is towards the Ganges) through the Vindhya, Satpuras and the Deccan plateau

Moreover Bangladesh will oppose tooth and nail against diverting any water from Brahmaputra river. Without Bangladesh' co-operation, any such diversion project have to be channeled through narrow Siliguri corridor. Which is pretty much impossible considering the higher, mountainous terrain against the gravity and the huge amount of water involve. So I think, this interlinking of river project will remain a pipe dream forever. Forget about, channeling huge river against gravity through the narrow mountainous corridor, currently there is no such project in the world where river water from one river diverted to another thousands of km away. There is a much talk about linking Great lake of US to Colorado river to meet the growing demand of arid south western US for many decades. But the cost and engineering challenge it involves and the opposition from the lake states, means that it never proceeded beyond an idea. Now diverting water from Brahmaputra would be ten times more challenging than that Great lake-Colorado interlinking idea.

 

[namefield_empty]

Moreover Bangladesh will oppose tooth and nail against diverting any water from Brahmaputra river.

You are fully entitled to raise a hue and cry should India go on to link her rivers without consulting your country. BD is already parched by what many think is an unfair water treaty.

Without Bangladesh' co-operation, any such diversion project have to be channeled through narrow Siliguri corridor. Which is pretty much impossible considering the higher, mountainous terrain opposite to the gravity and the huge amount of water involve. So I think, this interlinking of river project will remain a pipe dream forever.

That's not true, the alignment and location of the rivers in lower Assam and the Duars of WB are favourable for river linking and reservoir building without taking help of Bangladesh. Bhutan is of prime importance though, thus we see our government go to any lengths to further our mutual cooperation in that country.

Project will be a pipe dream for a different reason-inter state water disputes, weak legislations related to water resources and fear mongering in some states. I told this few days back to the Strange guy from your Bengla but he seemed agitated about it. Appeared as if he wanted us to initiate the interlinking process asap.

currently there is no such project in the world where river water from one river diverted to another thousands of km away.

China did something similar on a somewhat favourable landscape, if all things fit into place (non geographical) India can move ahead with the proposal as the benefits of sending water to the dry Southern states will far outweigh the cost.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

That's not true, the alignment and location of the rivers in lower Assam and the Duars of WB are favourable for river linking and reservoir building without taking help of Bangladesh. Bhutan is of prime importance though, thus we see our government go to any lengths to further our mutual cooperation in that country.

What is the elevation of Brahmaputra river from sea level? And what is the elevation of Duars? Or Bhutan? What is the width of the Siliguri corridor in it's narrowest point? Do this corridor contain vital rail and road network? Do river linking is only for transferring a few thousands of cubic meter of water or billions of Cubic meter? What will be the energy demand to pump billions of cubic meter of water, hundreds or thousands of meters against gravity and then transport thousands km? What will be the cost? Seems like to discount the Bangladesh's relevance here, you are willing to imagine any mission impossible scenario.

 

[Dubious]

Another avant-garde ignoramus of the Bangladeshi stock trying to rear his ugly head in vain!

Can you please stop insulting members and nations! This is your final warning you are on your last strike!

 

[Homo Sapiens]

China did something similar on a somewhat favourable landscape, if all things fit into place (non geographical) India can move ahead with the proposal as the benefits of sending water to the dry Southern states will far outweigh the cost.

Which Chinese project? Read about proposed Great lake-Colorado water transfer canal, it is about 1250 km,with much more favorable geography and terrain, but the cost and energy demand is too prohibitive even for United States, despite much water scarcity and demand in it's South west. And you are day dreaming about transferring water from Brahmaputra river to south India through Siliguri corridor. Have you lost all sense of proportion and fair judgement?