Modern Review November 1930

287 Our Crime against Trees Grasses and Rivers By RADIIAliAMAL )IUKERJEE I AS we follow the course of the river Ganges towards the delta the rainfall the climate the agriculture the density of population and the culture imProve. [...] The gradual 103s of fertile lands caused by the extension of ravines along the hanks of the Ganges and the inning and their tributaries is on the aggro. [...] There is at the same time water-logging duo to obstruction of the drainage of the country and malarial fever epreede over the region This hits been the WC In the western portions of the Gangetic delta which compare very unfavourably with those in the east. [...] in a single elisitoo. danger of breaches during a high flood is ve ry eta at On the other hand the present of the flood-hanks enables the natural channel to pa—; a larger proportion of the total Thug the integrity of the channl l i. maintained. [...] The sinking of the bed of the river is draining the country and the well water levels are sometimes as low as 200 feet.