It's expected to make landfall near the Ganges River delta where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra Rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal and that could bring major storm surges, a rise in seawater levels blown ashore by a cyclone.
Unfortunately, matching donors and recipients is a bit more complicated due to additional antigen systems, particular the Rh factor, named after the Rhesus monkeys in which it was first isolated.
A team of researchers trained three Rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.
But in these increasingly crowded valleys, they have to share these sacred waters as the tributaries of the Ganges are having ever greater demands placed upon them.
India's Kumbh Mela lasts for weeks and attracts millions of Hindu devotees who descend on the banks of the river Ganges in Haridwar to bath in its holy waters.
When Sailen Manna died, 2,000 people followed his body to the Keoratala burning ghat in Kolkata, on the banks of the Hooghly river that flows out of the Ganges.
A second consequence is that water often has a sacred or mystical quality that is invested in deities like Gong Gong and Osiris and rivers like the Jordan and the Ganges.
Using the exquisite brush strokes of our new home, the artisans painted us, depicted the hair lace and tiara we brought from our homeland by the Ganges.
Two of the rivers are in Africa, the Nile and the Niger while the remaining eight are in Asia, the Ganges, Indus, Yellow, Yangtze, Haihe, Pearl, Mekong and Amur.
The guide avoided inhabited places, thinking it safer to keep the open country, which lies along the first depressions of the basin of the great river.