Principles of Transboundary Water Resources Management and Ganges Treaties: An Analysis

Rahaman, Muhammad Mizanur

doi:10.1080/07900620802517574

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“…In order to resolve the conflict, the Government of Bangladesh and the Government of India adopted a water sharing treaty in 1996 for sharing the dry season flow of the Ganges River at Farakka [40,72]. However, the results of this study suggest that the agreement between India and Bangladesh did not provide minimum water for Bangladesh.…”

Section: Impact Of Hydrologic Alterationcontrasting

confidence: 52%

“…The calculated thresholds can also be used for water allocation to meet household, agriculture and industrial water demands. In trans-boundary river basin management within an integrated water resources management approach [71][72][73][74][75][76], thresholds of flow variability can be used as a basis for negotiation with other riparian countries. This simple, but effective, approach for evaluating the impact of dam-induced hydrologic alterations presented in this study may also prove to be useful to the policymakers and river basin authorities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Impact of the Farakka Dam on Thresholds of the Hydrologic Flow Regime in the Lower Ganges River Basin (Bangladesh)

Gain

Giupponi

2014

Water

102

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Abstract:The variation of river flow within a natural range plays an important role in promoting the social-ecological sustainability of a river basin. In order to determine the extent of the natural range of variation, this study assesses hydrologic flow thresholds for the Lower Ganges River Basin. The flow threshold was calculated using twenty-two "Range of Variability (RVA)" parameters. The impact of Farakka Dam on the Lower Ganges River flow was calculated by comparing threshold parameters for the pre-Farakka period (from 1934 to 1974) and the post-Farakka period . The results demonstrate that due to water diversion by the Farakka Dam, various threshold parameters, including the monthly mean of the dry season (December-May) and yearly minimum flows, have been altered significantly. The ecological consequences of such hydrologic alterations include the destruction of the breeding and raising grounds for a number of Gangetic species, the increase of salinity in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh and a reduction of fish and agricultural diversity. The major findings in this paper have a number of policy-level implications to aid water sharing mechanisms and agreements between the government of Bangladesh and India. The methodological approach presented in this study is applicable to other river basins.

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Section: Impact Of Hydrologic Alterationcontrasting

confidence: 52%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of the Farakka Dam on Thresholds of the Hydrologic Flow Regime in the Lower Ganges River Basin (Bangladesh)

Gain

Giupponi

2014

Water

102

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“…A number of transboundary water treaties have been signed on sharing the main rivers of the region. The most important among them include the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan, as well as the 1996 Mahakali Treaty between Nepal and India and the 1996 Ganges Water Treaty between India and Bangladesh [87]. While they provide a fairly good basis for transboundary governance of the Indus and Ganges basins, in practice the water related policy-making is overly nationalistic and integration of policies of nations and sectors has proven to be difficult [88].…”

Section: South Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While such state-centrism has its problems [124,125], it also means that there are often already existing organisations and institutional arrangements facilitating transboundary cooperation. In our comparative analysis, these include legal agreements such as the Mekong Agreement [31,126] as well as the bilateral treaties in the South Asian river basins [87]. While the existing organisations are commonly water-focused (e.g., river basin organisations), they often extend their activities towards (water-relevant) parts of food and energy sectors (e.g., [17,97,117]).…”

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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Transboundary Context: Insights from Large Asian Rivers

Keskinen

Guillaume

Kattelus

et al. 2016

Water

123

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Abstract:The water-energy-food nexus is a topical subject for research and practice, reflecting the importance of these sectors for humankind and the complexity and magnitude of the challenges they are facing. While the nexus as a concept is not yet mature or fully tested in practice, it has already encouraged a range of approaches in a variety of contexts. This article provides a set of definitions recognizing three perspectives that see the nexus as an analytical tool, governance framework and as an emerging discourse. It discusses the implications that an international transboundary context brings to the nexus and vice versa. Based on a comparative analysis of three Asian regions-Central Asia, South Asia and the Mekong Region-and their related transboundary river basins, we propose that the transboundary context has three major implications: diversity of scales and perspectives, importance of state actors and importance of politics. Similarly, introducing the nexus as an approach in a transboundary context has a potential to provide new resources and approaches, alter existing actor dynamics and portray a richer picture of relationships. Overall, the significance of water-energy-food linkages and their direct impacts on water allocation mean that the nexus has the potential to complement existing approaches also in the transboundary river basins.

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“…Three percent of the basin lies in China, 14 % in Nepal, 79 % in India, and 4 % in Bangladesh (Ahmad and Ahmed 2003: 307). The Ganges River length is 2600 km, the world's thirteenth longest river, with a coverage area of 1,080,000 km 2 (Rahman 2009: 3). The two major originating branches of the Ganges are the Alakananda and Bhagirthi rivers that flow southward and meet in Garhwal district of Uttarkhand province in India.…”

Section: The Ganges-brahmaputra Basinmentioning

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The need for community inclusion in water basin governance in Bangladesh

Hossen

Wagner

2016

Bandung: Journal of the Global South

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In this paper we focus on the principle of community inclusion in water and ecological resource governance and document the negative impacts of its absence, in Chapra village, Bangladesh, on sustainable development and livelihood security. This community depends heavily on common property resources such as wild plant foods, fish and ‘natural’ crop fertilizers derived from river siltation and other sources. For the vast majority of people in Chapra, these common ecological resources create the ability to effectively match livelihood strategies to the conditions of both dry and rainy seasons. However, this socioecological livelihood pattern is increasingly undermined by the hydropolitics and top–down water management practices that prevail throughout the Ganges–Brahmaputra Basin in Bangladesh. These practices lead to ecosystem failures and ecological resource degradation which in turn cause survival challenges for the marginalized people who constitute the vast majority of the population. In this paper we explicitly seek to answer the question: how might community inclusion in governance processes help protect ecological integrity and common property resources and thereby support an alternative and more sustainable form of development for the region? In order to answer this question we first document the nature of livelihood practices in Chapra, based on 1 year of fieldwork, and then outline the mismatch that now occurs between livelihood practices, ecological characteristics and governance practices. We conclude with the argument that greater community inclusion in governance must be part of the solution to existing problems and we propose specific governance reform measures to facilitate community inclusion.

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Principles of Transboundary Water Resources Management and Ganges Treaties: An Analysis

Cited by 54 publications

References 14 publications

Impact of the Farakka Dam on Thresholds of the Hydrologic Flow Regime in the Lower Ganges River Basin (Bangladesh)

Impact of the Farakka Dam on Thresholds of the Hydrologic Flow Regime in the Lower Ganges River Basin (Bangladesh)

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Transboundary Context: Insights from Large Asian Rivers

The need for community inclusion in water basin governance in Bangladesh

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