I consider it lack of vision ...

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I consider it lack of vision on part of the Governments for not putting proven technologies to work to arrest the erosion of soil and free passage allowed to river waters take away soils and dump the same into sea/oceans.

A. Without having to stop flows in rivers, CONCRETE REVETMENT of design thickness and the design heights along the river embankments is easily possible to train the rivers.

B. If the real value of SOIL and MINERALS  carried by flows of river is understood and if it is logical that this precious soil serves as top cover in fields across the flood plains or is even transported to areas where required to support better cultivation, it is technologically possible.

Projects have to be designed at appropriate locations where manmade widening of river flow is attempted to reduce the velocity of flows so that suspended solids settle down on river bed and are pumped out by dredgers or is excavated during lean seasons and transported to designated areas. It can also be utilised to raise the embankments of reservoirs.