The River People
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There are lab tests for anaemia, malaria, and syphilis. Sometimes, patients are referred to the mainland, but there is no need today. View image of Residents of India's Brahmaputra River islands receive medical care. After eating, we crawl under mosquito nets, falling asleep as the Brahmaputra softly laps the sides of the boat.
Boatmaster Bipul Payeng, 34 years old, has sailed the Brahmaputra for two decades. GPS is useless here, he says. Three islands are marked in yellow — Bhekeli 1, 2, and 3. The people of Bhekeli 3 fled months ago, their island eroded. The map is already out of date. The Independence Day earthquake 8. Some 45 billion tonnes of silt were carried downstream, populating the riverbed and emptying onto banks. Since the earthquake, the river bed has risen by up to 10 metres and continues to widen.
Silt leaves the land fertile, but now the river has become braided — one channel turns into many, the water eroding the river banks as it goes. View image of Labourers pile sand bags to try to protect a bank of India's Brahmaputra River. Erosion has decimated more than 2, villages, 18 towns, countless cultural heritage sites and entire tea gardens.
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Since the earthquake, erosion has decimated more than 2, villages, 18 towns, countless cultural heritage sites and entire tea gardens. Nearly half a million people have been affected. Between and alone, villages and almost 37, houses were completely eroded.
Rising temperatures are shrinking the glaciers of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau, accelerated by air pollution , which could cause more flooding. At least animals at Kaziranga died in the floods including 15 rhinos, one Royal Bengal tiger and four elephants. Suddenly, there is a cry from Payeng: A Ganges River dolphin leaps through the air.
We are fortunate to catch this glimpse. The dolphin is officially endangered, facing threats across the Ganges and Brahmaputra: Conservation projects are encouraging fishermen to use alternative baits , but only 1, of these river dolphins remain throughout India, less than in the Brahmaputra. Our sighting gives some hope, though. The dolphin sits at the apex of the aquatic food chain and so its very presence signals a healthy ecosystem and biodiversity. But there is little room for complacency. The Yangtze river dolphin was declared functionally extinct in solely due to the actions of humans, including overfishing, dam-building and ship collisions.
The Ganges River dolphin also remains vulnerable. Over the following few days we travel to more sandbanks, clambering over rotting logs and parched earth.
Starting in Belgium and ending in the border with France, Istasse sails on an adventure to reveal the importance and influence that the river had in the past, and the romanticism around it nowadays. BBC Future travelled with a visiting hospital boat to see what is at stake. Silt leaves the land fertile, but now the river has become braided — one channel turns into many, the water eroding the river banks as it goes. The islands of the Brahmaputra are remote, unmapped, under threat — and home to 2. Can this young girl hold her tribe together as the new braves join them, and again when hostile warriors attack their valley? Unable to free herself, she was pushed under, the rapids exerting forces on her body she could not possibly extract herself from. Published on September 30,
We visit other Mishing tribes and sometimes other groups, too: Deoris, Boros, Rabhas, Lalung — there are more than ethnic groups in the Brahmaputra Valley with at least 45 languages and many more religions, laws and customs. The younger generation occasionally seek work on the mainland, usually in the service industry, but the agricultural sector remains the mainstay of employment. And so, as long as the land is endangered, its people are, too, their fates entwined.
They speak of erosion time and time again.
The ‘river people’ under threat
Otherwise, the saporis will wash away. View image of Built against erosion, structures on the Brahmaputra River could make matters worse. That war is complex. Dredging is another proposal: Costly geo-textile tubes used to stabilise a river bank at Majuli were washed away within a year. Stone spurs divert strong currents, thus protecting one location but potentially triggering erosion downstream.
Boulders and sand bags protect receding river banks but are hardly infallible. Anti-erosion efforts need to address other factors, too — especially deforestation, dams, and climate change. Hazarika is struck that those championing various anti-erosion strategies rarely ask the people living on the islands and river banks for their opinions.
One version has a young girl, Yakasi, being drowned by her neighbours: She returns as a dolphin, the story goes, those brooms became her fins. And so the Mishing see the river dolphin as their long-lost daughter, to be revered and protected at all costs. As we watch another dolphin somersault alongside the boat, Yakasi is still with us. But her future and the future of her people depends on decisions made on the mainland. Onto to the next sapori we go. We have no map to guide us, but Payeng will surely get us there. And despite our fears for the future of the Brahmaputra and its people, that will have to do for now.
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