The water resources and environment adviser to the interim government, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, said on Wednesday that China expressed its commitment to sharing expertise in water management, building a smart water conservancy system, and enhancing data sharing during floods...
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in an interview with the Press Trust of India said that he wanted India to resolve the issues pertaining to the Teesta water sharing that...
Inqilab Mancho, an organisation of students from different universities, on Wednesday announced of organising a long march to Tripura鈥檚 Dumboor Dam on Friday to protest India鈥檚 water aggression.
THE suffering of people from diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases in the flood-hit districts suggests that the government is not prepared to tackle the post-disaster health crisis. As flood water has begun to recede in Noakhali and Feni, two of the worst-affected areas, the district hospitals and other health facilities are struggling to attend diarrhoea patients...
Students and political organisations on Friday condemned Indian water aggression in Bangladesh by holding separate demonstrations in the capital.
More than one lakh people living in Shahrashti and Kachua upazilas in Chandpur have been trapped in floodwaters for over a week, with no access to food or drinking water.
WITH half a million people living in shelters and five million more having been directly affected, public suffering in districts under water is worsening as relief has not yet reached remote areas. The disaster management ministry says at least 74 upazilas in 11 districts have been severely affected, the authorities have opened 3,834 shelters and 27 people have...
The Dhaka WASA provided around 18,000 bottles of 'Shanti' drinking water to the flood-affected people, said a press release.
IN THE inundated parts of Bangladesh and north-east India, at least 36 people have died as rivers on both sides of the border reached extreme levels a few days ago. Nearly 4.5 million people have been affected by the flooding in Bangladesh, which has forced hundreds of houses under water, leaving residents stranded on rooftops...
The importers and exporters have been forced to slow or stop the transport of cargo containers on the Chittagong-Dhaka-Chittagong road and rail routes in the current flood situation. The country's import-export is being hampered due to the arising reasons...
Several villages, fish enclosures and crop fields were inundated by heavy tides in Dakop and Paikgasa upazilas of Khulna after the river embankments collapsed.
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma, in a courtesy meeting with chief adviser to the interim government Professor Mohammad Yunus on Thursday, claimed that water was...
Water stagnation triggered by heavy rain gripped most of the Chattogram city areas on Thursday...
FLOODING in the east, north- and south-east that has so far affected about three million people in more than nine districts mostly in the greater Chattogram region warrants an early, serious attention. The flooding 鈥� which very heavy to extremely heavy rain that has continued in the affected areas and in the upstream Indian state of Tripura for about a week...
A Dhaka court imposed a 60-day travel ban on Taqsem A Khan, the former managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA), on Thursday.
Hundreds of residents in the low-lying char areas of Cumilla are facing severe waterlogging as the district has been drenched with 274 millimeters of rainfall over the past three days...
I HAVE a very intense relationship with water.聽 As a result of a long-term health condition, I am often feeling very thirsty and drained. I cannot go more than perhaps 15 minutes without having a sup of water until I start to feel uncomfortable. On average people in the UK use 149 litres of water per-day, and although there is poverty in this country...
Adviser to the water resources and environment ministry Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Sunday asked officials concerned to take urgent measures to prevent illegal encroachment of national heritage wetlands and rivers...
The government on Thursday cancelled the contract with the long-serving Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority managing director Taqsem A Khan.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told the Indian provincial assembly on Monday that it was 鈥榠mpossible鈥� to share Teesta water with Bangladesh...
Water stagnation continued to hamper life and businesses in parts of the capital even on Saturday, a day after a heavy rain deluged the city.
Independent University, Bangladesh partnered with renowned consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Bangladesh to implement a comprehensive university management system...
A MODERATE to heavy rain still submerges large parts of Dhaka, including most of its roads, despite the authorities having spent hundreds of crores on projects to mitigate water stagnation problems. Most areas of the city went under water, causing immense sufferings to city dwellers, on July 12, after a rainfall measuring 130 millimetres in six hours...
The chief executive officer of Dhaka South City Corporation, Md Mizanur Rahman, said that due to heavy rainfall in short duration, there had been some delay in the receding of water from the areas under the jurisdiction....
Britain鈥檚 embattled Thames Water on Tuesday said its debt continues to rise despite increased revenues, leaving the group with cash reserves taking it through only until May next year...
After ravaging villages for about a week floodwater now surged towards upazila towns sweeping away embankments built to protect them in some of the flood affected...
Due to an onrush of water from upstream in India and a torrential downpour, the river water at Teesta barrage point was flowing near the danger level on...
The Teesta development project, signing of the long pending Teesta water sharing deal, renewal of the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty signed in 1996 and connectivity of the...
Bangladesh Water Development Board, Institute of Water Modelling and Centre for Environmental and Geographical Information Services jointly organised a workshop on...
The High Court on Monday declared the dismissal of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority鈥檚 deputy managing director Syed Mohammad Golam Yeazdabni on June 22, 2023, illegal...