Ramesh for joint river management
Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen stressed the need for involving all countries of the Himalayan region for a joint management of trans-boundary rivers in accordance with the international convention while sharing water of common rivers.
He said he wants to follow other regions water sharing of trans-boundary rivers like the Nile, Rhine and Danube.
The minister told a workshop of Delta Alliance, Bangladesh Wing jointly organsied by Institute of Water Modeling (IWM) and representatives of Delta Alliance partner countries held at Brac Centre Inn in the city yesterday.
IWM Executive Director Prof Dr M Monowar Hossain presented a keynote paper on the overview of Delta Alliance.
Speakers said Bangladesh, the biggest active delta in the world, deals with numbers of critical issues in trans-boundary water management including hydropower generation, management of navigation, fisheries and ecosystem management.
The speakers said food shortage would affect Bangladesh due to the rise of sea level. They said due to green house effect, climate change is shifting to a greater natural disaster that creating huge consequences for Bangladesh.
Additional secretary to the Ministry of Water Resources Quamrun Nahar Khanam chaired the event while secretary to the environment and forests ministry Mesbah ul Alam, secretary to the Disaster Management and Relief Division Dr M Aslam Alam, Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan and Giasuddin Ahmed Chowdhury, among others, spoke.
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