That means more flooding, more soil loss, more siltation, more trouble all round.
Miles upstream, construction projects had loosed the earth, and the pond was being strangled with siltation.
This is due to a historic process of siltation and utrification.
He warned about the problems of siltation and human settlements inside the lake even in 1887.
They continued cultivating the steep river banks, and when the rains came there was heavy siltation of the system.
More dangerous rivers: "Removing river bank vegetation such as trees and shrubs decreases bank stability and increases erosion and siltation".
In areas subject to heavy siltation, this dredged area will almost certainly act as a silt trap.
Today, the paddy fields are gone, and the village is abandoned, fallen prey to hillside erosion and river siltation.
Prime Minster Hun Sen of Cambodia alluded to potential development problems, saying: "We see the signs of such stress in erosion, siltation and changes in water currents.
There are a number of constraints: limited local budgets, politics and natural factors such as steep banks, heavy siltation, tidal and spring flooding and annual ice flows.
India's national government created a special Brahmaputra Board, which plugged breaches in existing embankments and other structures that are intended to enhance siltation or redirect the river's currents.
