The affiliate aims at reviewing differing causes of river infringement in Dhaka with grave results of encroachment and suggesting measures that would insulate the rivers and assert ecological sustainability. Dhaka city is situated at the center point of the flat deltaic plain of the three major waterway systems containing the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna. The city is surrounded by the distributaries of these rivers. They are the Balu and the Shitalakhya on the orient, the Turag on the west and north, and the Buriganga on the cold. Being expanded fast in an unplanned habit with the exceptional increase of population, land shortage and land price, Dhaka city’s peripheral district reached the banks of the waterways. Rivers of Dhaka are now under weighty threat of destruction due to step-by-step encroachment that is narrowing below the rivers. Thus, the waterways require next recovery conduct to minimize the adverse belongings of encroachment.
Author(s) Details:
Tazeen Fatima Khan,
Department
of Soil, Water and Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Swarnali Mahmood,
Department of Coastal
Studies and Disaster Management, University of Barishal, Barishal, Bangladesh.
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