Peter McCornick, International Water Management Institute Negotiators at COP20 need to take a serious look at water. The more extreme temperatures we will now face are likely to alter the amounts and distribution of rainfall, river flows, groundwater availability, and…
Thousands of Scottish homes are without power as a “weather bomb” storm hits western coastal areas.
The 12th annual general meeting (AGM) of the Bangladesh Water Partnership held at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) auditorium on Saturday decided to highlight in detail in its secretary general’s report the activities of the local area water partnerships,…
by Sanjib Baruah Chinese and Indian policies on river systems are more alike than different. On November 23, the first power-generating unit of the Zangmu hydropower complex on the Yarlung Tsangpo or the Brahmaputra in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region became…
Optimum aquifer recharge in the Hard Barind area is very important to protect its overall public health alongside the existing agricultural ecosystem by managing a groundwater basin efficiently and effectively, scientists and researchers at a workshop here said Saturday. They…
“Government will not proceed with interlinking of rivers if environmental consequences are adverse”, says Uma Bharti, Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation at the India Rivers Week 2014 Sushri Uma Bharti, Union Minister of Water Resources,…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder A country-paper being presented from Bangladesh at the seminar on “Strengthening People’s Perspective on South Asia Water Commons” proposes the assessment of the current state of rivers and river basins in the South Asian region. Assessment of…
The Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) and Jatiya Nodi Rakkha Andolon on Sunday urged Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury to request India’s new prime minister Narendra Modi for not to implement the Indian inter-river linking project. The two environmental organizations said in…
Speakers at a roundtable on Sunday stressed that good relations between Bangladesh and India should be used in resolving water dispute with the neigbouring country. “The good relations Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has with India should be used to…
Speakers at a views-exchange meeting here on Tuesday stressed the need for taking effective steps to protect the four rivers surrounding Dhaka city -– Buriganga, Shitalakhya, Turag and Balu — as per the High Court order issued earlier in this…
The International Farakka Committee (IFC) New York Inc. at a meeting held in New York on Sunday strongly protested the unilateral withdrawal of water of common rivers at upstream in India and said this amounted to an activity against humanity,…
Arsenic, industrial pollution, salinity, decrease in groundwater level major reasons. Around 26 million people in Bangladesh do not have access to “improved” drinking water, say Unicef and the World Health Organisation. Bangladesh is among the 10 countries that are home…
BNP will hold six rallies during its long march to the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari on April 22-23 to press for Bangladesh’s fair share of waters of River Teesta. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programmes at…
Advisor of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Manzurul Ahsan Khan has said successive governments in Bangladesh have lacked the grit to bargain with India. The CPB leader made this angry remark at a rally in Sirajganj after a march…
BNP will stage a long march towards the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari on April 22-23 demanding due share of the river water. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme at a press briefing on Wednesday at…
Juhi Chaudhary India’s most worshipped river, theGanga, continues to be the fifth most polluted river in the world, despite a 29-year-old clean-up plan Flowing over 2,500 kilometres across northern India and Bangladesh, the Ganga is revered as a goddess with…
Re-excavating work of twoponds and construction of boundary and retaining walls of the Fish Seed Farm (FSF) of the district has been progressing fast.
Water experts at a workshop in the city on Friday emphasized strengthening regional cooperation and sharing knowledge and experience to address water problems in the South Asian countries. It is imperative to have regional cooperation for river basin management targeting…
Irrigation crisis hits Boro farming in Rangpur Irrigation on 60,500 hectares of Boro land under the Teesta Barrage project area is facing setback in the current season due to abnormal fall of water flow in the Teesta following unrestrained withdrawal…
Kuala Lumpur – Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States are working with their counterparts in developing countries to produce an “economical and efficient” means of filtering out bacteria from water using plant xylem that…
By Lauren Everitt A new report from researchers at Oxford University argues that large dams are a risky investment – soaring past projected budgets, drowning emerging economies in debt and failing to deliver promised benefits. Do they ever really make…
From: Robin Blackstone, ENN Water scarcity affects 2.7 billion people worldwide for at least a month each year and in the same way that each of us has a carbon footprint, Professor Arjen Hoekstra of the University of Twente in…
As many as 1,500 of Indonesia’s islands could be under water by 2050 because of rising sea levels, it’s been reported.
Thousands of homes along the River Thames are threatened with flooding as water levels continue to rise.
Climate change is likely to be a factor in the extreme weather that has hit much of the UK in recent months, the Met Office’s chief scientist has said.
Bangladesh is a land of rivers, but changing climate has caused a third of the country’s more than 300 large rivers to disappear. The rivers are drying out as a result of barriers built upstream to divert water and protect…
Coastal towns in south-west England have been left flooded after being hit by strong winds, large waves and a high tide.
California’s water agency has announced it may for the first time be unable to deliver water to local agencies, amid a worsening drought.
Newly appointed Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has said he wants to ease the ‘discomfort’ between Dhaka and Delhi over Teesta water-sharing. Talking to bdnews24.com at his Secretariat office on Wednesday, Mahmud said resolving the the issue with India…
A quarter of a million more homes are expected to face significant flooding by 2035 because of a shortfall in funding, an independent committee says.