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Transboundary water, water-diplomacy figure at BWP AGM
22nd AGM of Bangladesh Water Partnership in progress at LGED XEN building on Saturday 7 Dec 2024.
Transboudary water issues and water diplomacy figured prominently at the 22nd annual general meeting of Bangladesh Water Partnership in Dhaka on Saturday.
The Bangladesh Water Partnership (BWP) held its annual general meeting (AGM) at the XEn building of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) at Agargaon with its president Moshiur Rahman P Eng in the chair.
Some members of BWP called for breaking down the silence over the developments taking place in the sphere of transboudary rivers which account for 90 percent of Bangladesh's surface water, as well as water diplomacy.
BWP organised a workshop for young professionals on water diplomacy and a paper on the state of transboundary water in Bangladesh presented at a conference held at BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology).
The meeting was told the Ganges Barrage Project was dropped at its implementation stage at the political level. The meeting was informed that the big neighbour India had told Dhaka the said barrage project if implemented would cause water seepage in its border areas.
The AGM was told developments taking place in the sphere of transboudary water was more comprehensive and a paper on efficacy of transboudary water agreements was not adequate to understand its scope in respect of relationships between unstream and downstream water communities.
The meeting approved the Secretary General Siddiqur Rahman's report of activities for the year 2024 and took up a work progremme for the coming year 2025.
About 40 individual and organisational members of BWP's cenral and local area partnerships took part in the AGM which extended the tenure of its present executive committee for another term.
BWP president Moshiur Rahman informed the members that the Global Water Partnership based in Stockholm, Sweden has informed its inability to contunue funding BWP activities and advised the latter to arrange its own fund from now onwards.
BWP has thus decided to explore fund from local sources while requesting GWP to continue its support. - GreenWatch News Desk