We must take strong position based on facts to get share of joint rivers: Salehuddin

A legally binding agreement with a jabber clause is important to verify an very ideal distribution of join river water, Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed stated these days (24 November).

“A accumulate space based totally on details must be taken,” he stated while addressing a seminar on upstream withdrawal of river water: Financial catastrophe for Bangladesh.

On the match, he stated, “We should always be given an very ideal part 54 rivers. We can enact whatever is important to have shut this.”

Mentioning that there is arbitrariness within the distance referring to water, the adviser stated the contemporary excessive floods in Feni and Cumilla were attributable to the delivery of extra water from the Dambur reservoir constructed on the Gumti River in Tripura without warning in time.

However, by withdrawing water at upstream for the length of the dry season, a first-rate environmental catastrophe is created within the lower basin nation of Bangladesh, he added.

Salehuddin Ahmed stated that the water set of dwelling is higher than the oil set of dwelling.

“This would most definitely maybe maybe consequence in a third world war. Attributable to our relate within the lower basin, we’re no longer getting our supreme a part of water in Bangladesh,” he added.

He stated many folk remark that a political resolution is important. “There is political division in Southeast Asia, but they are declaring an agreement acceptable to all on the Mekong River.”

As soon as more, despite many tensions between Pakistan and India, they are declaring the agreement on the Indus, he stated.

In Europe, the worldwide locations of the Danube River Basin are the utilization of it peacefully, the finance advisor stated, adding, “We want to build up an very ideal solution to the water set of dwelling. For that, world assistance is important. We have to resolve it collectively.”

He noticed that one unhappy thing is that the bottom of the Hardinge Bridge is dry and folk trip to hunt it. “This miserable ambiance can not be fixed with out supreme a part of water.”

Mentioning that the better of the oppressed folk’s leader Maulana Bhashani is our ultimate of equality, Salehuddin stated the folk of Bangladesh will consistently procedure inspiration from the budge of fight he has shown to present protection to water and the ambiance.

World Farakka Committee Chairman Syed Tipu Sultan recalled the August riot and drew everyone’s attention to end its targets.