A substantial and sustainable promotion of water saving technologies can be the crucial means of lessening the pressure on underground water resources in the drought-prone Barind area.
Category: Water
BWP Emergency General Meeting nods NGO Bureau registration
Dhaka, July 7 – An emergency General meeting of the Bangladesh Water Partnership on Saturday endorsed a decision of the BWP executive committee to have registration from the NGO Affairs Bureau of the government.
Exercise austerity in electricity, water use: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to exercise austerity in suing electricity and water as the government provides these utilities at subsidised prices.
Clean water access to all, a must to defeat superbugs
A medical microbiologist working in developing countries says that a major obstacle in tackling antimicrobial resistance is a lack of access to clean water.
Heavy rains trigger flood in Panchagarh
Panchagarh – Persistent heavy rains for past two days have waterlogged the low lying areas of the district including the Panchagarh municipality creating huge suffering to the locals.
Rosatom, SUEZ sign water desalination – treatment deal
Dhaka, July 2 – Rusatom Smart Utilities ( ITPC) – a division of the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, Russia and SUEZ signed a Memorandum of understanding for water desalination, water treatment and wastewater treatment. Ksenia Sukhotina, Director General of…
Water Scarce Cities: never let a crisis go to waste
Submitted by Stephane Dahan On Wed, 06-27-2018. co-authors: Lauren Nicole Core Newsrooms around the world all too often publish headlines about water crisis. The world watches while a number of cities, regions, and even countries suffer from drought.
‘Water, sanitation, hygiene needs more equitable allocations’
Dhaka, June 24 – More equitable budget allocation for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors are needed in the proposed national budget for 2018-19 to achieve the sustainable development goal-6 (SDG-6), according to experts.
Halda – BD’s last spawning river of carps – gets death blow
Experts of a special team have recently released test results from water samples they collected from the Halda River, finding it to be extremely polluted.
Agriculture the greatest source of water pollution: FAO
Agriculture is now the greatest source of water pollution worldwide, and among the most dangerous agro-pollutants is antibiotics and genes of resistant antibiotics, according to the FAO.
Inefficient dam operations threaten India-Bangla Rivers
Sandrp – the South Asia Network on Dams Rivers and People – in its latest bulletin published on Saturday 9 June has questioned the huge live storage of 27659 MCM (million cubic meters) water in 91 reservoirs in India on…
Study of rivers requires far more attention than generally given
Sharing our new section on Water – The study of rivers requires far more attention than has generally been given by historians or social scientists.
Bangladesh denies knowledge of Teesta deal speculation
Amid the media speculation that the Teesta water-sharing deal will be signed with India before the next general election for an interim period, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Tuesday said he does not know anything about it.
Teesta not a failed case yet: Sushma
Dhaka, May 28 – Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said the current Indian government still has one year left and her government cannot be tagged with failure in terms of resolving Teesta water-sharing deal with Bangladesh.
Dhaka, May 25 – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said people want to know what efforts Prime Minister Sheik Hasina has made to sign Teesta water-sharing deal and resolve the outstanding problems with India during her…
No progress in Teesta deal, says Foreign Minister
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Wednesday indicated that there is no progress over Teesta water-sharing deal yet saying that the purpose of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Kolkata visit is something different.
At least 140 Bangladesh rivers gasping for survival: Greens
Dhaka, May 22 – At least 140 rivers in the country are gasping for survival, of them, 13 rivers are on their way to extinction. Besides, 120 species of local fish have become extinct and 45 species are on the…
Where the water is
Manzoor Qadir , Vladimir Smakhtin Sustainable Development Goal 6 calls for universal access to clean water and sanitation. But if governments do not embrace unconventional water resources, achieving that goal will be as difficult as getting water from a stone…
BD, S Asia on path of making millions of climate refugees
May 17, 2018 SANDRP Massive human induced freshwater redistribution with profound consequences. A 14-year (April 2002 – March 2016) NASA’s GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) mission has confirmed that a massive redistribution of freshwater is occurring across Earth, with…
IFC calls for over-all Teesta treaty, not sharing at border
New York, May 14 – The International Farakka Committee New York on Saturday called for a comprehensive treaty on the Teesta and other common rivers instead of signing a water-sharing at the border. The call was floated at an opinion…
শুধু পানি বন্টন নয়ঃ যৌথ নদীর অববাহিকা ভিত্তিক সার্বিক চুক্তি চাই
মোস্তফা কামাল মজুমদার বাংলাদেশের একটা প্রধান নদী তিস্তা। ব্রহ্মপূত্র নদের অন্যতম প্রধান এই উপনদীর উৎপত্তি ভারত-চীন সিমান্তে হিমালয় পর্বতের সাত হাজার একশত আটাশ মিটার উচ্চতায় অবস্থিত পাহাংগিরি থেকে। সুষম পানি ব্যবহারের লক্ষ্যে ২০১১ সালে এ নদীর যৌথ ব্যবস্থাপনার জন্য ভারতের…
Teesta on BD side has water swelling 2.5 folds overnight
Lalmonirhat, Apr 18 (UNB) –The water flow of the Teesta has increased about 2.5 folds at Teesta barrage point in Hatibandha Upazila of Lalmonirhat suddenly.
Over 1m people demand globally: Cut single-use plastics
Washington, DC, 18 April 2018 – More than one million people ahead of this year’s Earth Day (April 22) are demanding that the world’s largest corporations reduce their production of single-use plastic.
‘Save Mathabhanga-Churni River’ campaign in W Bengal
April 17, 2018 SANDRP On 10th April 2018 around 500 fishers assembled at Majhdia, a town bordering Bangladesh in the district of Nadia (W Bengal), to publicly voice their protest against killing of rivers Mathabhanga and Churni. Majhdia town reverberated…
The secret water war in Europe
Is water a commodity or a human right? Cities across Europe are fighting water privatisation. In 2010, water was officially recognised as a universal human right by the United Nations. However, the European Union has yet to do the same.
Wastewater treatment critical component of circular economy
The 8th World Water Forum was held in Brazil a few days ago. What’s ironic is that the more than nine thousand of us attending this Forum were discussing water-related issues in a city of three million grappling with a…
Harvest rainwater for development: Hasina
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged all concerned to create reservoirs to harvest rainwater during the monsoon to utilise it for the country’s development.“We’ve to work out a plan for creating ways to harvest the water that we get…
New platform to support youth projects on water and climate
By Mario Osava Brasilia, Mar 23 (IPS) – Young people around the globe with good ideas on how to deal with water and climate challenges now have a platform to show their projects to the world and attract funding and…
Massive farmer protest in Maharastra, India against water diversion
Scores of farmers from Vikramgadh, Dahanu, Jawhar, Mokhada and other areas in Palghar district under the aegis of the Surya Pani Bachav Samiti (SPBS) are on an indefinite fast at Palghar for the past three days to protest the state…
Boat capsizes in the Shitalakkhya: 5 bodies recovered
Narayanganj, Mar 25–The bodies of five young men were recovered early Sunday after a boat sank in the Shitalakkhya River following a collision with a cargo vessel in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj on Friday.