Bangladesh - A Strategy to Combat Flooding | Global 3000

During the rainy season, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra often burst their banks, flooding huge tracts of land in Bangladesh. And, due to climate change, extreme weather is becoming more common.
Major floods regularly drive hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis from their homes. Now a pilot project in the north of the country is helping to avert flood damage, by making sandy areas fertile and preventing erosion.
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