ocr: During the monsoon, the water level normally rises 20 feet above sea level, flooding two-thirds ofthe country. The tloods are made much worse when the Ganges, Jamuna and Meghna rivers, which converge in a huge delta in Bangladesh, are swollen by the melting ofthe Himalayan snows, and heavy rain, in India. -yclones regularly build up in the Bay ofBengal, with sometimes devastating etfects on the flat coastal region.
