The Promise of Roads for Polder Water Management and Flood Protection from bangla blue Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 8 min 96 sec
✓ Published: 08-Sep-2017

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Bangladesh's polder areas support the lives and livelihoods of more than 8 million people. The key issue within the polders is drainage, exacerbated over the years by the rise in level of coastal rivers due to siltation and sea-level rise due to climate change.nnRoads-- both embankment roads running atop the embankments around the polders, and intra-polder roads criss-crossing the polders-- can greatly hinder or facilitate the movement of water within the polders and drainage of excess water fro