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We appreciate the opportunity to address tidal river management (TRM), as raised by Hossain and colleagues1. We are aware of TRM but made the decision not to include it in our Letter2 on flood risk on the Ganges-Brahmaputra tidal delta plain for the following reasons.

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  1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 37240, Tennessee, USA

    L. W. Auerbach, S. L. Goodbred Jr, C. A. Wilson & J. M. Gilligan

  2. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College-City University of New York, Queens, 11367, New York, USA

    D. R. Mondal

  3. Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, 9208, Bangladesh

    K. R. Ahmed & K. Roy

  4. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, 10964, New York, USA

    M. S. Steckler & C. Small

  5. Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 37203, Tennessee, USA

    B. A. Ackerly

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