Bangladesh is determined to provoke negotiations with India relating to water rights and the distribution of shared river sources, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Water Resources said this day (25 September).
“The topic of sharing global river waters is advanced, however the substitute of wanted knowledge, equivalent to rainfall knowledge and the location of buildings, is serious and could perchance additionally simply no longer be politicised. This substitute can support prevent hurt to lives and property,” Rizwana said at a World Rivers Day seminar at the Pani Bhaban in Dhaka.
Talking as the executive guest at a seminar titled “Bangladesh’s Comely Allotment of Water in Shared Rivers,” the adviser emphasised that Bangladesh would beget in ideas public enter old to taking part in talks, with the negotiation outcomes shared with the of us. While underlining the notify of taking such considerations unilaterally to global courts, she said both worldwide locations need to be smitten by the blueprint.
Rizwana, also adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Wooded space and Local climate Trade, said, “Sharing rainfall knowledge is a humanitarian field, a truly main for saving lives. Bangladesh’s claims could be made clearly and strongly.”
She also confused out the have to give protection to interior rivers, describing them as “living entities that need to be collectively preserved.”
The speakers at the seminar discussed ideas to obtain particular the equitable distribution of shared river waters and emphasised the need for the application of global law, honest water knowledge, and the strengthening of bilateral and multilateral discussions on river management.
The seminar used to be presided over by Mihir Biswas, convenor of the World Rivers Day Celebration Council, and moderated by Md Alamgir Kabir, general secretary of BAPA.
