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BANGLADESH - Irrigation
BANGLADESH National Committee of ICID (BANCID)BANGLADESHSUMMARYB angladesh is inhabited by about 126 million people in an area of about 147,000 square kilometers and islocated within the flood plains of three great rivers, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna. About93% of the catchments of the country's river system lie outside in the upper region of BANGLADESH , butdrain the system over it's flood plains to the Bay of Bengal. Because of this unique geographic location,the country receives excess inflows in the monsoon months (July - September) causing recurrent floodsand suffers due to shortage of water in the dry season (December - April).
3 Brahmaputra and the Meghna, along with their tributaries and distributaries. The three rivers drain a total catchment area of about 1.72 million ha of which only 7% lies within Bangladesh.
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