River Bank Erosion and Environmental Degradation

Abstract

Environmental Degradation is a widespread problem in our society. It causes in different ways, either man made or natural. In different natural causes River bank erosion one of the prominent factors. It has many looks, like flood, land slide, soil erosion which directly or indirectly effects on the environment of river basin area. Many cases are recorded in hill and semi-hill, even plain region also, where riverbank erosion creates huge losses like destruction of forest due to land slide and erosion, loss of land and degrade of water quality etc. So, it is a very silent killer of basin environment.