Timm Kroeger and Claudio Klemz Balneário Camboriú is both a famous Brazilian beach destination and a water supply management puzzle. The resident population of the city is just 170,000, but swells to over 800,000 during the tourist season. Like many…
Sunamganj, Apr 4 – Four people went missing as a trawler, carrying around 50 people, capsized in Tanguar Haor under Tahirpur upazila on Tuesday morning.
M Mamun Sagor & Rafiqul Islam Dhaka, Apr 2 – The Gorai River Restoration Project (Phase-II), initiated in 2009 in Bangladesh part of the Ganges under Kushtia district, has failed to restore the natural flow of the distributary river and…
Geneva, 30 March – The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is pleased to announce Ms. Unjela Kaleem as its new Head of External Affairs, Communications and Coordination.
In Asia, it likely will not be straightforward water wars. Prolonged water scarcity might lead to security situations that are more nuanced, giving rise to a complex set of cascading but unpredictable consequences, with communities and nations reacting in ways…
Dhaka, March 22 – The World Water Day is being observed in the country, as elsewhere across the globe Wednesday with a theme ‘Water and Wastewater’.
When on March 20-21, 2017, on the eve of the World Water Day, India and Pakistan’s Permanent Indus Commission met in Islamabad for its 113rd meeting, there is a lot at stake besides the immediate issues or even the Indus…
Experts at human chain programme yesterday stressed the need for proper management of waste water to resolve the drinking water crises instead of over relying on underground water.
By Juliet Perry and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN)For years, it’s been held up as a rare diplomatic success story between rivals India and Pakistan. But last year a long-standing river pact that governs how the two countries share crucial water…
By Baher Kamal Rome, Mar (IPS) – New evidence is deepening scientific fears, advanced few years ago, that the Middle East and North Africa risk becoming uninhabitable in a few decades, as accessible fresh water has fallen by two-thirds over…
The BNP yesterday demanded the government of giving a condition to New Delhi to sign an agreement on Teesta water sharing before signing any agreement with it during the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India. Standing committee member Goyeshwar…
From Golam Moin Uddin Jakarta (Indonesia), Mar 6 – The first-ever Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Leaders’ Summit formally kicked off here Tuesday morning under the theme ‘Strengthening Maritime Cooperation for a Peaceful, Stable, and Prosperous Indian Ocean’. Indonesian President…
A discussion with a Singaporean company to dredge rivers in exchange for the excavated sand is underway, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has said.He told the media at a programme in Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Sunday that the government…
Mymensingh – Students of a male residential hall of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh yesterday staged demonstration on the campus due to lack of water supply in their hall.
GreenWatch Dhaka NewsDesk The demand recently made by the Indian state of Bihar to decommission the Farakka Barrage on the Ganges was positively scrutinised and some urgent steps were recommended to save Bihar from the recurrent flood problem attributed to…
Dhaka, Feb 24 – A cement-laden trawler capsized in the Panguchhi River in Morelganj upazila of Bagerhat district, near the eastern fringe of the Sundarbans early Friday.
Guest Blog by Muhammad Ali Shah, Dr. Aly Ercelan & Roshan Bhatti Sindh Peoples Caravan March 1-14, 2017 Protect Our Rivers and Delta Across the world the greed of capitalism has created water crises. Asia in general and South Asia…
Dhaka – Bihar wants Farakka barrage to be decommissioned The Nitish Kumar govt has held the Farakka barrage in West Bengal responsible for heavy floods in Bihar and asked the Centre to decommission it to de-silt the heavily loaded upstream…
Government issues emergency over “imminent” collapse of Oroville Dam’s spillway as thousands flee from their homes. At least 130,000 people living below the tallest dam in the United States have been asked to evacuate as a spillway appeared in danger…
Dhaka, Feb 3 – Bangladesh, India and Bhutan are likely to constitute a tri-nation joint venture for developing an 1100 MW hydropower plant in Bhutan. According to official sources, the three nations have already completed initial discussions to sign a…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrapped up a PIL on cleaning of river Ganga and sent it to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for more effective adjudication. The apex court had been monitoring the issue for 31 years.
Dhaka – People in flood prone areas can now be alarmed round-the-clock about the rise of the water flow in the river when it is above the danger level.The district’s Disaster Management and Relief office has invented a flood sensor…
Describing water as a wealth, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said it can no longer be a free input and infinite resource to production or development.“Water can no longer be a free input and infinite resource to production or…
Dhaka – The Department of Shipping (DoS) Sunday has prosecuted the owner and master of sunken coal laden vessel MV Aichgati that went under water at Fairway Bay near the Sundarbans on Friday morning. The DoS officials have primarily found…
Dhaka – The High Court yesterday directed the chief judicial magistrate of Gazipur to probe whether there is any illegal structure and encroachment even after removing the illegal structures from the Turag river at Kamarpara. The HC also asked the…
Dhaka – The government is working to sign an agreement with India over the implementation of proposed Ganges Barrage Project which is expected to bring about massive socio-economic development in Bangladesh’s southwestern region. “We’re working in full swing over the…
Dhaka – Two people were killed and seven others went missing as a boat carrying some 60-70 passengers capsized in the Shitalakhaya River at Taraganj in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur on Friday.
Speakers at the National Water Convention, 2016 stressed the need for sustainable management of water resources as the availability of water is declining day by day.Speaking as the chief guest, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud emphasised preserving the country’s…
Dhaka – The 14th AGM of Bangladesh Water Partnership (BWP), chaired by Dr. Kh. Azharul Haq, President, BWP was held on 17 Dec 2016 at Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), Framgate, Dhaka.
By Jenny Rogers Sally Brown knows how to throw a party. On the second floor of an old mill factory in rural New Hampshire, she gathered several friends to watch a dam—her dam—be removed from the Ashuelot River. “It was…