[act-ma] Water Futures of Bangladesh and India - tomorrow 2 pm at MIT

[Paul Malachi Penchalapadu]

*Water Futures of Bangladesh and India:
Divided by borders, connected by rivers*

*Saturday 2 pm, May 18, 2013*

*MIT Rm 3-133

*http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3
*
**Speakers*

*Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
 and
Nazrul Islam*

*Jayanta Bandyopadhya, environmental activist and professor, author of
fourteen critically acclaimed books, is former head of the Center for
Development and Environment Policy at the Indian Institute of Management
Calcutta.*

*Nazrul Islam, senior economist at the UN, is the author of several books
on prospects for development in Bangladesh and China.  He is the
coordinator of Bangladesh Environment Network ( BEN ),  a global
organization of Bangladeshi citizens, expatriates, and friends of
Bangladesh dedicated to protecting the environment in Bangladesh.*

Recent experience in South Asia demonstrates that rivers are not objects to
be “conquered” and “consumed”.  The harvesting of river resources must not
entail fundamental changes to the natural course and flow of rivers.

Big dams have proven to incur great cost to a country and provide only
questionable benefit.  Dams on multiple rivers upstream have damaged vast
areas in India and even more in the lower riparian country Bangladesh.

In particular the mammoth Inter Linking of Rivers project ( ILRP )
initiated by the Govt of India is likely to cause irreversible damage to
both India and Bangladesh.

Organized by:

Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
(www.southAsiaAlliance.org<http://www.southasiaalliance.org/>
)

Association for India's Development MIT & Boston Chapters (www.aidboston.org
)

Bangladesh Environment Network (www.ben-global.org)

The South Asia Forum at MIT

*Facebook page:* https://www.facebook.com/events/590383734320333/
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