This publication explores the potential of the Meghna River as an alternative water source for Dhaka. It also describes the fragile state of the city’s current drinking water supply due to increasing demand and surface contamination. The authors assess the threats facing the Meghna River and identify protection measures needed …
This publication explores the potential of the Meghna River as an alternative water source for Dhaka. It also describes the fragile state of the city’s current drinking water supply due to increasing demand and surface contamination. The authors assess the threats facing the Meghna River and identify protection measures needed …
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently launched a report and preliminary study on benefit sharing opportunities in the Meghna Basin for Bangladesh and India. Governance based on ‘benefit sharing’ is more holistic than traditional governance, which has historically been about allocating water. ‘Benefit sharing’ accounts for all …
This flood risk assessment and forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins summarizes the technical findings, includes highlights of the work, and links to the full technical reports and new interactive online resources. The report provides, for the first time, a numbers-based view of the impacts of floods of different severities …
This new study led by an Indian scientist Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, points out a significant decreasing trend in the summer monsoon rainfall over the central Indian subcontinent during the past century. It suggests an important role of the rapid warming …
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal are connected by the combined system of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers, but erratic water supplies and pressures of population growth are leading to tensions over management of these transboundary waters. GOLAM RASUL outlines the main issues of transboundary water management in this Himalayan …
Hilsa catches from rivers are shrinking in spite of a rise in overall production, due to pollution and falling navigability. In fiscal 2012-13, hilsa catches from inland waters, mainly from rivers, stood at 98,648 tonnes, the lowest in three years and down almost 14 percent year-on-year, according to the Department …
Climate change upsets life, livelihood alike; major rivers flowing below usual level The water level of the Jamuna has never dropped to this low in the last one decade. At Bahadurabad point on May 14 this year, it was 14.51 metres above sea level, and 15.82m and 15.22m on the …
ADB will provide $250 million for a project of Dhaka WASA to develop an environmentally sustainable water supply system in the city. The government and the ADB signed a loan agreement in this regard recently. Under the project, 50 crore litre water to be produced per day from the river …
The four major rivers — Jamuna, Ganges, Padma and Meghna — may grab around 3,700 hectares of land leaving 36,680 people landless and homeless this year. A prediction report of Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) said 485 hectares of settlement, 5.6 kilometers (km) of active embankment and …
Experts from Bangladesh and different parts of the country participated in the symposium jointly organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Patna University, and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Saturday. As many as 47 participants discussed trans-boundary issues related to the biodiversity of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river …
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal in the Eastern Himalayas are interconnected by the common river systems of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna (GBM). The GBM basin is home to approximately 700 million people, comprising over 10% of the world's population. The economy and environment of the region depend on water, …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved US$ 250 million assistance to a project of Dhaka WASA to bring 50 crore litres of water per day from Meghna River to reduce its dependency on groundwater, reports UNB. ADB, which is the lead financier of the project, at its board meeting …
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved Thursday Tk 52.48 billion cost water treatment plant set up project to purify the water of the Meghna, to be supplied to the capital, officials said. Presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the ECNEC meeting endorsed a total 11 …
In a bid to bring transparency in the water sector, the Centre has decided to put in the public domain all water data maintained by the Central Water Commission (CWC) and the Central Ground Water Board. The data, including river water levels, river discharge, siltation, reservoir levels, ground water levels …
According to this policy released by the government, all water data maintained by the Central Water Commission and the Central Ground Water Board will be made available in the public domain. See Also Policy: National Water Policy 2012. Policy: Draft National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy. News: ICSSR plans one-stop …
Focusing trans-boundary water regime of Ganges- Brahmaputra- Meghna (GBM) basin, this situation analysis paper discusses the core issues related to environmental security through analyzing various environmental impacts and its significance at the national and regional level. Specifically, the scope of this paper pertains to transboundary water relations between Bangladesh and …
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav, has blamed the Delhi Government for the alarming pollution level in the Yamuna upstream of Agra. “Yamuna has been killed by Delhi”, Mr. Yadav said, speaking at a function for releasing the population figures of the Gangetic dolphin. On the conclusion of the …
India yesterday handed over a copy of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of Tipaimukh Hydropower Project to Bangladesh as the two countries finalised the Terms of Reference for a joint study on the dam's impact. At the end of a two-day meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh joint subgroup on the proposed …
Developed by BITS Pilani, it can be operated by any person Scientists at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) in Pilani have developed a new bio-sensor device to detect arsenic content in drinking water. The device can be operated by a layman and is based on a rare …
Bangladesh is located between 20 º 34 to 26º 38 north latitude and 88.01 º to 92.42 º east longitude, with an area of 147,570 sq km). With a population of 164.000 million, Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated countries. Geologically, Bangladesh is a part of the …
