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Mon, 07/14/2008 - 11:58
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8 Himalayan countries cooperating on flood data
By Shehabuddin Ahmed DHAKA, Bangladesh, July 14 (BSS) - A website keeps eight South Asian countries in the Himalayan region to be posted about data on rivers daily to keep updated on the annual flooding, sourcessaid.
The website, southasian.flood.org links Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan under a programme named International Centre for IntegratedMountain Development (ICIMD) from its base at Kathmandu, Nepal.
Every morning all the members pass data on the rivers, mostly originating from the lap of the great Himalayan mountain range, the source of the mighty Ganges and the Brahmaputra, which flows around the region and trigger floods every monsoon, thesources said.
The countries are also maintaining the site under thecooperation programme of ICIMD.
Besides, the web site, Bangladesh and India have been cooperating on exchanging data on the two great rivers, which mostly flows down India and Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal, forming the Ganges delta in the southernBangladesh.
Sources at the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) of the Bangladesh Water Development Board told BSS that every morning the FFWC receives data on the Ganges from Farakka barragepoint where the mighty river enters Bangladesh.
The data on the Brahmaputra is also available from Dhubri, Goalpara in Assam, where it enters Bangladesh. The data comes bywireless on 24 hours basis.
Besides, the FFWC also receives data from a number of satellites monitoring the rivers and the oceans. It comes from satellites of the national Oceanogeraphic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) of the United States, patrolling the world's oceans forthe rainfall.
The FFWC also receives data from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, which also gathers data from differentsatellites.
All these data enable the FFWC to disseminate information on the rivers and floods on a 24 hours to 72 hours basis, which areposted on its website twice daily.
We are now trying to develop a forecasting system on a ten-day basis, a FFWC source said.
The website, southasian.flood.org links Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan under a programme named International Centre for IntegratedMountain Development (ICIMD) from its base at Kathmandu, Nepal.
Every morning all the members pass data on the rivers, mostly originating from the lap of the great Himalayan mountain range, the source of the mighty Ganges and the Brahmaputra, which flows around the region and trigger floods every monsoon, thesources said.
The countries are also maintaining the site under thecooperation programme of ICIMD.
Besides, the web site, Bangladesh and India have been cooperating on exchanging data on the two great rivers, which mostly flows down India and Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal, forming the Ganges delta in the southernBangladesh.
Sources at the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) of the Bangladesh Water Development Board told BSS that every morning the FFWC receives data on the Ganges from Farakka barragepoint where the mighty river enters Bangladesh.
The data on the Brahmaputra is also available from Dhubri, Goalpara in Assam, where it enters Bangladesh. The data comes bywireless on 24 hours basis.
Besides, the FFWC also receives data from a number of satellites monitoring the rivers and the oceans. It comes from satellites of the national Oceanogeraphic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) of the United States, patrolling the world's oceans forthe rainfall.
The FFWC also receives data from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, which also gathers data from differentsatellites.
All these data enable the FFWC to disseminate information on the rivers and floods on a 24 hours to 72 hours basis, which areposted on its website twice daily.
We are now trying to develop a forecasting system on a ten-day basis, a FFWC source said.
