The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Thursday imposed a permanent travel ban on former managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority Taqsem A Khan over allegations of corruption...
Speakers at a discussion in Brahmanbaria have urged the youths to take effective measures to protect the rivers and water bodies of the country...
Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction 鈥� and climate change is the chief culprit, a new report said on Wednesday...
Thousands of people marched through central London on Sunday demanding action on cleaning up Britain鈥檚 rivers and seas.
THE Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, which has continued to incur losses despite increases in water tariff for 15 times since 2009, when the Awami League assumed office to continue for consecutive tenures before its overthrow on August 5, and has struggled to improve the quality of supply water, has now run into a new problem. Two projects...
THE River Buriganga, the ecological lifeline of Dhaka, faces a slow death. The photograph that 抖阴精品 published on October 30 shows unabated encroachment on the river land and the unchecked dumping of polythene bags and rubbish in the river at Islambagh in Dhaka. Untreated liquid industrial effluents discharged into the river indiscriminately has left...
The WaterAid organised an inception workshop of 鈥榃ASH Systems of Health鈥� project at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka on Saturday.
Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world鈥檚 food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday.
The flood situation in Mymensingh division has started to improve although the flood-hit people were still prone to waterborne diseases amid scarcity of drinking water...
Manusher Jonno Foundation held an event titled Women鈥檚 Empowerment: Women鈥檚 Voice and Leadership Bangladesh Project was organised at the Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel in the capital, said a press release on Wednesday...
Bhabadah Water Mitigation Movement Committee on Sunday held a sit-in on the premises of the Jashore deputy commissioner office, demanding the solution to water strangulation problem...
People from all walks of life on Saturday held a protest rally protesting at the Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority鈥檚 move to install pipelines on private properties without acquisition...
The Khaiyachara waterfall at Mirsarai upazila in Chattogram has been temporarily closed following the death of a bank official due to falling rocks...
WE CAN use the term 鈥榟ydrocide鈥� 鈥� short for hydrological genocide 鈥� to describe the deliberate manipulation of water resources in ways that systematically undermine the...
The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development, and Co-operatives on Thursday directed Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority deputy managing director AKM Shahid Uddin to cease functioning as the organisation鈥檚 managing director....
Adviser for Ministries of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Road Transport and Bridges and Railways Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan issued two directives regarding the banning of single-use plastic water bottles and the formulation of recruitment and promotion policies for different entities under his ministries.
The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives on Wednesday filed a petition with the Appellate Division challenging a recent High Court order that barred AKM Shahid Uddin from serving as the managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority...
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...