Franklin F. Snyder
Q ..
Right.
A ..
And it's an awful situation. When we were there, a Japanese firm had the contract,
I think, the main contract. We were reviewing the plans they had prepared for
providing protection around the whole city. I don't think everybody was convinced
it was necessarily a feasible thing, but they had the plans for it. I don't know
whether it was a matter of approval or not, or more just that the World Bank wanted
more information about what was going on, but there was no objection to it that I
remember.
But it would have been quite a project because the pumps would have had to be
tremendous pumps to pump the rainfall out during the floods. But, also, some of
them were to be reversible so that they could pump water in during the low water
season. Those people live on these river banks. The whole country gets flooded,
so when I say river banks, I guess it means that includes just about everything in
certain sections. Their livelihood is dependent on the growing season in between the
floods.
Q ..
That's a big delta, though, isn't it?
A ..
Yes.
Q ..
A big delta comes out there so that's why that's such a big problem? It's very low?
A ..
It's very flat. Yes, because as you go farther south, of course, you get into that area
where it gets flooded by typhoons.
Q ..
The Bay of Bengal?
A ..
Yes.
Q ..
One of these two, I forget which one, but they just come right up the coast there,
from Burma on up the coast, and just push the water up ahead of them.
Yes. Maybe the storms form in the Indian Ocean and can take several different
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paths.
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