Flood control 2015
Final Report
31.10.2008
Table of contents 1 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY 3 2 INTRODUCTION 5 3 EUROPE 5 3.1 PO DELTA - Italy 5 3.2 DANBUE DELTA – Romania 5 3.3 RHINE DELTA – the Netherlands 6 3.4 EBRO DELTA - Spain 7 4 AFRICA 7 4.1 NIL DELTA – Egypt 7 5 ASIA 8 5.1 GANGES- India 8 5.2 MAHANADI DELTA - India 8 5.3 KRISHNA DELTA - India 8 5.4 CHAO PHRAYA - Thailand 9 5.5 BENGAL DELTA – India/Bangladesh 9 5.6 INDUS DELTA – Pakistan 9 5.7 PEARL DELTA - China 10 5.8 HUANG HE DELTA – China 10 5.9 YANGTZE DELTA - China 11 5.10 RED RIVER DELTA – China/Vietnam 11 5.11 MEKNG DELTA – Vietnam 12 6 AMERICA 12 6.1 SACRAMENTO DELTA – San Joaquin United States 12 6.2 MISSISSIPPI DELTA – United States 13 6.3 PARANA DELTA - Argentina 13 7 DELTA ATTRACTIVNESS 15 7.1 MISSISSIPPI – United States 18 7.2 CHAO PHRAYA - Thailand 20 7.3 GANGES DELTA – India 22 7.4 MEKONG DELTA – Vietnam 24 8 GANGES / BENGAL DELTA 29 8.1 INDIA 29 8.1.1 RELEVANT MEDIA CHANNELS 29 8.1.2 PROJECT OFFICE 30 8.2 BANGLADESH 30 8.2.1 GOVERNMENT 31 8.2.2 WATER AUTHORITIES 32 8.2.3 COOPERATION WITH CIVIL AUTHORITIES 33 8.2.4 DECISION MAKING CONCERNING FLOOD CONTROL SOLUTIONS 33 8.2.5 MAIN ISSUES IN BANGLADESH 34 8.2.6 WATER PROGRAMMS ON WATER CONTROL 35 8.2.7 RELEVANT MEDIA CHANNELS 35 8.2.8 CURRENT PROJECTS 36 8.2.9 CULTURAL ASPECTS 36 9 STRATEGY 38 10 List of references 40 1 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
The main target of this project is to get more insight in the important countries and markets where the Flood control 2015 should be targeted on. In the world are many different deltas. To get a better overview of all nineteen deltas in the world they were first all described and after that they were all analyzed through a criteria matrix. From here the delta which would have the greatest succession opportunity was decided to be the Bangladesh part of the Ganges,