rivers in Bangladesh
Prepare, publish list of rivers within 2 months
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the environment and water resources ministries, yesterday instructed the Bangladesh Water Development Board, BIWTA, National River Conservation Commission, and Divisional Commissioners to finalise the total number of rivers in the country within two months.
#Literature / Rivers in fiction: A unique genre of Bengali literature
With hundreds of waterways spread all over the country like a spider’s web, it’s only natural that rivers play a notable part in our lives. There are numerous novels focused on our riverine traditions, enough to call it a genre by itself.
Make protecting our rivers a top priority
The government must make the best use of the river route classification initiative.
As our rivers lay dying
Rivers don’t live anymore, they merely exist. They exist as relics of their halcyon days when rivers were truly wild, mysterious, free -- or as a character in their own story, as told through poetry and music.
Our rivers are being robbed
Why is the law to stop illegal sand extraction not enforced?
37,000 River Grabbers: NRCC decision to withhold names draws flak
The National River Conservation Commission has decided not to publish a list of 37,000 new encroachers of 48 rivers and the environment activists say protecting their identities is tantamount to siding with the grabbers.
Dried-up Teesta continues to haunt farmers
Bangladesh needs to find a realistic solution to a persistent problem
The sorry state of rivers in Bangladesh
There used to be more than a thousand rivers crisscrossing through Bangladesh. Many of those rivers are now lost, mostly due to human interventions.
WORLD RIVERS DAY / Can we reimagine rivers before it is too late?
It is a tragic irony that riverine Bangladesh has become the land of dying rivers.
The Story of Teesta
The Teesta River, originating in the Himalayas, travels a long way through the mountains and plain land before reaching Bangladesh.