Engineer stresses on water management to thwart floods

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Guwahati, June 19 (UNI) Asserting that Asom must take a cue from the Bangkok model to withstand water-logging problem in non-stop rains, an Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) (Bangkok) professor today said the state was in a good position to control floods if it made proper use of its natural wetlands.

Prof Ashim DasGupta said the Thai capital had faced massive artificial floods after an upper part of the Bangkok basin was encroached, but with good planning, effective implementation and the new drainage system in place, rains do not throw life out of gear anymore.

Prof DasGupta, whose association with the water management programme of Bangkok is as old as more than 30 years ago, is in the city to deliver the 11th H P Barua Memorial Lecture on the topic 'Education and Research in Water Science and Engineering in a Changing Global Environment', at the Institute of Engineers' tomorrow.

Interacting with the press today, he said, ''Water resource management cannot be pursued in isolation. It is a part of the social sector.'' He was a member of the UNESCO's water resource engineering body, which had for the first time included water resource management as an integral part of social sector.

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