Almost all the rivers that have dried up over the last couple of decades in Bangladesh is because of the Farakka Barrage in India. Sltation that destroyed their tributaries cause both floods and droughts every year and a lack of drinking water has become a part of life in these regions. Mainkgunj, Dhaka, Bangladsesh

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