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In the Fall of 1988, the House subcommittee on Asian and Pacific affairs adopted and referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee a resolution on flood assistance to Bangladesh. This resolution urged that the President of the United States submit a report to the U.S. Congress on the efforts of the international community to develop a regional program for the Ganges and Bhramaputra basins.

BSN was granted an interview with a member of the President's team. Dr. Peter Rogers is a professor of Civil Engineering at Harvard University. The interview was conducted by James Risby, then a Ph.D. student of meterology and policy studies at MIT, Nusrat Retina and Nurul Kabir, both software engineers from the Boston Area.

An edited version of this interview was published in the Bangladesh Support Network Newsletter of January 1989.