What river burst an embankment to cause the current monsoon floods in India?”
Monsoon floods continued to swell rivers in northeastern India on September 2, 2008, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired the top image. The Ganges River was running high, as it usually does during the monsoon season, but the Kosi’s usual channel (left) matched its dry-season extent, shown in the lower image. The water had burst barriers in Nepal and flowed into a long disused channel on August 18. Two weeks later, the flooded channel of the Kosi River (center) had spread in braided streams across kilometers of the Indian countryside. The flood rejoins the rest of the Kosi River immediately before emptying into the Ganges. Other tributaries of the Ganges, such as the Manhananda River, were also flooded.
