River Dossier Index
The rivers in the record
105 rivers that published studies name as dead or drying, grabbed or polluted, or eroding. It is a list of what has been documented, not of every river in trouble: Bangladesh has 1,415 rivers on the official list,[United News of Bangladesh] and most have never been studied.
"Dead or drying": named in the River and Delta Research Centre study (2025). "Grabbed or polluted": listed by division in The Daily Star, 28 Sep 2025. Official length is from the government's river list (April 2025), where the river's row is known. "Located (point)": a named point in GeoNames, Wikidata or Bangla Wikipedia inside the district the official list gives. "Located (upazila)": no map point exists, so the atlas shows the upazilas the official list names. "Name shared": several rivers carry this name and the study doesn't say which. How we found them.
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