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The Kosi and the embankment story [1]

The Kosi afflux bundh breached in Kusaha in Nepal on 18 August 2008. This was the eighth incident of its kind and the first time did a breach occur upstream of the Kosi Barrage. The ones in 1968 and 1984 were no less disastrous but this year

Publication Date: 
15/11/2008
Dinesh Kumar Mishra [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
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Tags:
Kosi [4], Natural Disasters [5], Floods [6], Flood Control [7], Displacement [8], Rehabilitation [9], Nepal [10], Bihar [11], Saharsa (D) [12]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rehabilitation
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[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/saharsa-d