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A dangerous dam-building race is threatening South Asia’s shared rivers

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par Mehebub Sahana, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Geography, University of Manchester
Bayes Ahmed, Associate Professor in Risk and Disaster Science, UCL

Bangladesh has just approved one of the largest river engineering projects its history: the Padma Barrage, a vast river-control project intended to restore water in the country’s drought-prone southwest.

It comes at a dangerous moment for South Asia’s rivers. China is building the world’s largest hydropower dam upstream on the Brahmaputra, India is accelerating its own dam-building…

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