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  <dc:creator>Luna Bergere Leopold</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1965</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Several years ago I was in India as consultant to that government concerning a flood-control project on the Kosi River in the State of Bihar. The Kosi originates near Mount Everest and emerges from the Himalayas to flow southward for nearly a hundred miles across the Ganges plain. It is a braided river with an ill-defined channel consisting of many distributaries wandering around myriad islands in an unsystematic way. Owing to the fact that the Kosi has moved laterally across its low-angle fan about 75 miles in a hundred years it has progressively devastated by flooding large areas of agricultural land.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Indian government has chosen as the most practical way to alleviate the flood damage, the construction of levees separated by a distance of about nine miles and confining the river through most of the course of its plain.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Sierra Club</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Comprehensive planning and the dragon to slay</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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