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	Ganges River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of them is the Hoogli River near Kolkata, another major distributary being the Padma River that enters Bangladesh and merges with Jamuna River, a branch of the Brahmaputra River.
		The Yamuna River — a major river in its own right, and nearly as sacred — is a tributary of the Ganga, and their confluence is near what is the site of the traditional holy Hindu city of Prayag, now known as Allahabad.
		It is believed that taking a dip in the river will wash away one's sins, and that having one's ashes disposed of in the Ganga after death may improve one's next life or even allow Moksha to be attained sooner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ganges_River (984 words)

	About Bangladesh
		The floodplains of the Jamuna, which lie north of the Bhar Basin and east of the Barind Tract, stretch from the border with Assam in the north to the confluence of the Ganges and Jamuna in the south.
		In north-central Bangladesh, east of the Jamuna floodplains, is the Madhupur Tract.
		The rivers may be divided into five systems: (1) The Ganges, or Padma, and its deltaic streams, (2) the Meghna and the Surma river system, (3) the Jamuna and its adjoining channels, (4) the North Bengal rivers, and (5) the rivers of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the adjoining plains.
	mohammed-yasin.iwarp.com /aboutbangladesh.htm (9231 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jamuna River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jamuna River is one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh.
		The Padma River is a distributary of the Ganges River in Bangladesh.
		Rivers of Bangladesh Jamuna Bridge, more correctly called the Jamuna Multi-purpose Bridge, opened in June 1998, is the longest bridge in Bangladesh as well as in South Asia, and the 11th longest bridge in the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jamuna-River (215 words)

	Bangladesh - River Systems
		The larger rivers serve as the main source of water for cultivation and as the principal arteries of commercial transportation.
		The Jamuna is notorious for its shifting subchannels and for the formation of fertile silt islands (chars).
		The Surma-Meghna, at 669 kilometers by itself the longest river in Bangladesh, is formed by the union of six lesser rivers.
	www.countrystudies.us /bangladesh/25.htm (731 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Jamuna River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jamuna River The Brahmaputra-Jamuna is the second largest river in Bangladesh and one of the largest in the world, with its basin covering areas in Tibet, China, India and Bangladesh.
		The gradient of the river in Bangladesh is 0.000077, decreasing to 0.00005 near the confluence with the Ganges.
		In the Jamuna the period between 1973 and 2000, chars have consistently appeared in the reaches opposite to the Old Brahmaputra offtakes, north and east of Sirajganj and in the southernmost reach above the confluence with the Ganges.
	banglapedia.net /HT/J_0054.HTM (901 words)

	The Brahmaputra-Jamuna River, Bangladesh
		In the districts that are dominated by the Jamuna River, the 2004 flood damage to infrastructure (homes, roads, culverts), tubewells and latrines, with ensuing unemployment of many of the population, were some of the areas of critical impact.
		The Jamuna and Ganges rivers combine to form the Padma River, which carries the third greatest water discharge of all the world's rivers but is often ranked the highest in terms of sediment discharge (Schumm and Winkley, 1994).
		The Brahmaputra/Jamuna River contributes ~51% of the water discharge and 38% of the sediment yield to the Padma (Schumm and Winkley, 1994), with the sediment yield being estimated at 590 MT yr-1 and the sand fraction contributing 34% of this total (Sarker, 1996).
	www.bton.ac.uk /env/personal/phil_ashworth/publications/JamunachapterGupta.htm (1293 words)

	Bangladesh :: Rivers and Lakes
		Rivers are the most important geographical features in Bangladesh, and it is the rivers that created the vast alluvial delta.
		The Padma, Jamuna and the lower Meghna are the widest rivers, with the latter expanding to around eight kilometers across in the wet season, and even more during the floods.
		Some rivers are known by different names in various portions of their course.
	www.discoverybangladesh.com /meetbangladesh/river_lakes.html (256 words)

	Padma River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Flowing southeastward, the Padma receives the mighty Jamuna (Brahmaputra) River near Rajbari and then continues southeastward through central Bangladesh to join the Meghna River through a channel 2 miles (3 km) wide, known as the Kirtimasa.
		The foremost river is the Ganges, known in Bangladesh as the Padma.
		Rivers are also a principal natural force in shaping land surfaces.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9057950 (850 words)

	Jamuna River Development Project (Sandbar) Symbiosis Bangladesh by Chris Pittendrigh and
		Jamuna River Development Project (Sandbar) Symbiosis Bangladesh by Chris Pittendrigh and
		The Jamuna River Project of Symbiosis Bangladesh is situated in the midst of the mighty Jamuna River on one of the many major sandbanks, which are found in the river.
		People live a precarious existence on these deposits of alluvium, which at the whim of the river can be washed away in the same way that they were formed.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~action/pub/jun_04/jun_2004_2.htm (161 words)

	arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh/India
		The Brahmaputra River is the largest sand-bedded braided river in the world in terms of catchment area, discharge and sediment load.
		The Himalayan Piedmont Plains are the alluvial cones of the rivers originating in the Terai region of the Himalayan foothills.
		The region is bounded by the Mahananda River in the west and the Dinajpur-Karatoa River in the east.
	www.sos-arsenic.net /english/intro/physio.html (2390 words)

	Inros Lackner AG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		On the Jamuna River (Brahmaputra) in Bangladesh innovative erosion prevention structures were built and tested within the framework of a pilot project.
		After groyne construction in 1994/1995, the complete river section was monitored by modern technique and the impacts of the seasonal high waters recorded.
		Considering the reactions of the river, constructual adaptations were taken with the view of stepwise optimising the structures.
	www.inros.de /project/page/l2/184 (156 words)

	w519 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Analysis of the Landsat images shown that erosion is sever in the west bank of the river where as in the east bank erosion rate is less sever compare to west bank.
		Within the study period erosion rate in the Brahmaputra - Jamuna is 160 m per year, which indicates the severity of erosion hazard along the river and its surrounding areas.
		Over the whole river, it is found that riverine islands most often persist from one to seven years, but 30 percent have lasted for 14 or more years.
	www.cig.ensmp.fr /~iahs/maastricht/w5/w519.htm (463 words)

	Jamuna River,Yamuna River,Jammuna India River,Yammuna India River
		It is that, the river first went round Shri Krishna before descending down to earth as per the order of her Lord.
		River Yamuna came to be called as "Kalindi"as she touched the peak of Kalind.
		The rivers Ganga and Yamuna along with the now dried Saraswati, are the most sacred rivers in India.
	www.pilgrimage-india.com /holy-rivers/jamuna-yamuna-river.html (638 words)

	Jamuna Toll Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Jamuna river, the single most dominant feature in the country of Bangladesh, is the worlds 4th longest river, and also ranks fourth in terms of peak discharge flows.
		The Jamuna is a mature, braided river, meandering within a broad belt of between 40 and 15km wide.
		The engineering challenge was to contain the river within a bridgeable gap, and found the bridge on extremely deep and mobile sands.
	www.intertollusa.com /jamuna.htm (298 words)

	Red Cross Red Crescent - News
		You may find that the village you were looking for is now part of the main river bed and covered with three metres of swirling water.
		River erosion along the banks of the Jamuna and Padma rivers in Bangladesh is leading to severe flooding.
		Last week, when flood water from India joined the already swollen Jamuna River, the force and level of the river quickly eroded the river bank, then washed 2 kms inland, inundating hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of prime agricultural land.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/00/082502 (570 words)

	Flow structure and spatial distribution of suspended sediment around an evolving braid bar, Jamuna River, Bangladesh : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The initiation and evolution of a kilometre-scale, sand braid-bar was monitored during a 28 month survey period from 1993-1996 in one of the world's largest braided rivers, the Jamuna River, Bangladesh.
		During rising and peak flow of the 1994 monsoon flood, a 1.5 km long, 0.5 km wide, 12 m high, symmetrical mid-channel bar was deposited in the centre of a major channel downstream of a zone of flow convergence and significant bank erosion.
		Initial deposition and growth of the bar core were probably caused by amalgamation of dunes that are present in the Jamuna channels at all flow stages.
	www.geog.leeds.ac.uk /papers/99-4 (380 words)

	Jamuna erosion takes serious turn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Erosion by the Jamuna river took a serious turn in five upazilas of the district for the last few days rendering over 7000 people homeless.
		The river devoured over 400 dwelling houses and vast tracts of croplands during the last 24 hours.
		Official sources said the water level of the Jamuna river increased by 2.13cm at Aricha point during the period.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/publish/printer_9284.shtml (202 words)

	Jamuna Bridge - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jamuna Bridge, more correctly called the Jamuna Multi-purpose Bridge, opened in June 1998, is the longest bridge in Bangladesh as well as in South Asia, and the 11th longest bridge in the world.
		It was constructed over the Jamuna River, mightiest of the three major rivers of Bangladesh, and fifth largest in the world in terms of volumetric discharge.
		In October 1995, one year after the commencement of physical work of the bridge, a bridge length of 4.8 km, instead of a flood-width of the river at 14 km, was finalised.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Jamuna_Bridge (398 words)

	Jamuna River Bankline GIS Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In keeping with other braided rivers, the outer banks of the active braid corridor (herein referred to as the bankline), are generally not parallel, but may be divided into either narrow ‘nodal’ or wide ‘island’ segments, seemingly governed by the underlying geology.
		To enable meaningful description of the Jamuna Rivers complex and diverse morphology, EGIS (EGIS 1997) have adopted the approach of dividing the river into eight discrete reaches, on the basis of their nodal versus island segment characteristics.
		Another notable aspect arising from using the Landsat image, is that, as the river has in the main, been expanding over the period of study, the 1996 backdrop marks the maximum extent of the river, to which the expanding banklines (the polygons of the animation) are attaining to reach.
	www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk /~thorne/msc_diss.htm (11899 words)

	Abstract
		The bathymetry of the braided Jamuna River is extremely lively with constantly changing channels and ‘chars’ (Bangladeshi expression for river islands).
		The objective of the forecasts was to predict the river bathymetry during and after the monsoon given a (measured) bathymetry before the monsoon and given an assumed flood event.
		A mathematical model covering 36 kilometres of the Jamuna River in Bangladesh in the vicinity of the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge presently under construction (1995-1998) has been applied to prepare forecasts of the morphological changes during construction of the bridge and to analyse the morphological impact of the bridge project.
	www.dhi.dk /usercon/papers/54/uc97-jam.htm (2197 words)

	Identifying the morphological changes of a Distributary of the ganges in response to the Declining flow using remote ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After the avulsion of the Jamuna River from its course along the eastern side of the Pleistocene Madhupur tracts to its present course, the combined flow of the Jamuna and Ganges moved further in the southeast direction and followed the present course as Lower Meghna (Figure 1).
		The discharge is mainly contributed by the snowmelt of the Himalayas and monsoon rainfall.
		The river is very dynamic and the channel of the river shifts between meandering and braided.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /aars/acrs/1999/ts2/ts2039pf.htm (2780 words)

	Yamuna River,India Yamuna River,Famous River in India
		The holy Yamuna River begins from Yamunotri, which is north of Haridwar in the Himalayas Mountains.
		The river Yamuna, a major tributary of river Ganges, originates from the Yamunotri glacier near Banderpoonch peaks (38o 59' N 78o 27' E) in the Mussourie at an elevation of about 6387 meters above mean sea level in district Uttarkashi (Uttranchal).
		One of the main causes of pollution of the river is discharge of untreated domestic wastewater and other wastes into the river from the towns located along its banks.
	www.famous-india.com /rivers-in-india/yamuna.html (555 words)

	Department of Civil Engineering :: Seminar - Steve Kay: Foundations for the Jamuna Bridge - Bangladesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Jamuna Multi-purpose Bridge, Bangladesh consists of a 5.0 km long combined road, rail and service crossing of the Jamuna [Brahmaputra] River at Sirajganj some 100 km north of the capital, Dhaka.
		No previous had been made to bridge a braided river of the strength and complexity of the Jamuna, which flows at a rate of 65,000 m3/s during the monsoon flood.
		A principal factor affecting foundation design was that the Jamuna river bed consists of approximately 70 m of loose to medium dense highly micaceous sands.
	www.civil.usyd.edu.au /seminars/seminar_2004_kay.php (313 words)

	Bangladesh's polluted Buriganga river cries out for help -- ThingsAsian Article
		The house-turned-museum of the Nawab (ruler) overlooks the river, which is the country's main waterway for trading and ferry travel.
		Human waste is responsible for 60 percent of pollution in the river, followed by industrial waste at 30 percent.
		"At the meeting it was decided to ban brick kilns within 250 metres (825 feet) of the river bank, structures within 540 metres (1,782 feet), remove garbage and silt from the river bed and divert water from the Jamuna river to keep a good flow of the Buriganga year round," Siraj said.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2228.html (761 words)

	Selected Project references (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Physical model studies were carried out at the River research Institute (RRI) under the supervision of DHI to derive detailed design criteria in the form of scour depth and flow velocities for a variety of bank protection measures.
		Water abstraction from the Melaka River is excessive and water has to be imported from the neighbouring State of Johor, to fulfil the needs of the State of Melaka.
		The project is concerned with the hydraulic conditons in the river downstream of the hydropower dams in Vietnam.
	www.dhi.dk /dhiprojrefs/Asia.htm (7811 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Little Jamuna River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Little Jamuna River one of the old courses of the tista river.
		The course of the river is very narrow in Dinajpur district, but it is wide enough in the south of Hili.
		The term 'Little' is used to differentiate the river from the mighty 'Jamuna' river.
	banglapedia.org /HT/L_0114.htm (94 words)

	Bangladesh
		Bangladesh, a low-lying country traversed by numerous rivers, has a coastline of about 580 km (about 360 mi) along the Bay of Bengal.
		Most of Bangladesh lies within the broad delta formed by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers and is exceedingly flat, low-lying, and subject to annual flooding.
		Rivers are a prominent and important feature of the landscape in Bangladesh.
	www.ovayonda.ws /lodging/country/bd.html (817 words)

	Gerwick Documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Installation of the 3.15 and 2.50 meter diameter piles is now underway on the Jamuna River Bridge in Bangladesh.
		The river has an annual flood discharge of 50,000 to 100,000 cubic meters a second, hence is one of the world’s largest rivers.
		The project is for the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Authority of the government of Bangladesh.
	www.gerwick.com /document.asp?DocumentID=2077 (606 words)

	Gerwick Documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Both the Jamuna River Bridge Contract and the River Training Contract in Bangladesh reached 50% completion on schedule.
		The last of the 121 giant piles, 3.15 m and 2.5 m in diameter, and 80 m in length was successfully driven to grade.
		For the Jamuna River bridge superstructure, the 600 ton launching gantry has now been erected and tested.
	www.gerwick.com /document.asp?DocumentID=1328 (414 words)

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