Water Policy and Governance in South Asia

Hossen, M. Anwar

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“…This is, of course, highly sensitive. These political groups seemed to be well organised, with a rank-and-file membership targeting rich farmers (see Hossen, 2014Hossen, , 2017.…”

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Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh: The politics and anthropology of contested access in large‐scale irrigation modernisation

Taylor

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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This paper is drawn from ethnographically informed research undertaken in 2016-2017 pertaining to the planned modernisation of two large-scale irrigation schemes in Bangladesh, funded by the Asian Development Bank. The research confirms existing crit-How to cite this article: Taylor, J. (2022) Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh: The politics and anthropology of contested access in large-scale irrigation modernisation.

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“…This is, of course, highly sensitive. These political groups seemed to be well organised, with a rank-and-file membership targeting rich farmers (see Hossen, 2014Hossen, , 2017.…”

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Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh: The politics and anthropology of contested access in large‐scale irrigation modernisation

Taylor

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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“…With the support of USAID, EPWAPDA developed a 20-year Master Plan on water resources development that established the Flood Control, Drainage and Irrigation (FCDI) system (Chadwick and Datta, 2003). This top-down approach fails to recognize the hydroecological system in terms of borsha (rainy season) and khora (dry season) in this region (Hossen, 2017). In Independent Bangladesh, the Green Revolution (Lein, 1993) in the 1980s and Flood Action Plan (FAP) (Custers, 1993) in the 1990s caused further problems with biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and unemployment.…”

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“…Local people have practiced indigenous agriculture for generations based on local ecological knowledge of borsha (wet season) and khora (summer season) in coordination with agroecological systems and the hydrological patterns. These practices provide sources of food sovereignty, local employment opportunities, health care services, and housing rights, which form the foundation for social, economic, and cultural systems (Hossen, 2017). Studying such systems should form the foundation of regional academic Sociology.…”

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Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters

Hossen

2022

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Sociology is one of the major disciplines to foster understanding and protection of the livelihoods of local people. For instance, the discipline can describe the linkage between the environment and people and the effects of environmental change on local groups of people in a Delta country such as Bangladesh. However, the imperial philosophy of modernity that dominates the discipline and which is evident in the Sociology department at the University of Dhaka (UofD) underscores a considerable distance between academic conceptualizations of local perspectives on issues such as climatic change and the actual views of the local people of Bangladesh. Grounded on this assertion, this paper explores a question: What are the challenges for Sociology to represent Delta people and protect their social justice? The paper depends on the content analysis of sociological practices at UofD: imperial modernity and climatic adaptation. The findings of the paper argue that Sociology has been failing to represent the local meanings of climatic change due to the domination of imperial conceptualizations of modernity. Climate finance conceptualized by a Western perspective, and Sociology, as a discipline, fails to represent locally contextualized meanings related to climate finance; thus, the marginalized groups of people are increasingly facing survival challenges responsible for climate apartheid. Only a decolonized Sociology can challenge this imperial domination and play an effective role in reducing the discipline’s gap of understanding of the local people and in promoting social justice in Delta Bangladesh.

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Variations in Water and Deposited Sediment Qualities in the Tidal River Basins of Bangladesh and Their Implications for TRM Success

Hafiz,

Biswas,

Mondal

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Sustainability

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The tidal river management (TRM) in coastal areas of Bangladesh has been successful in varying degrees. Though there are many studies on the social, institutional, hydrological and hydraulic factors in relation to TRM, there is no study that investigated the relationship between the water and soil qualities and the TRM success. This paper investigates the variations of water and deposited sediment qualities vis-à-vis the TRM success in selected tidal basins in the southwest coastal delta of Bangladesh. The basins were selected based on the level of success in TRM operation: Beel Bhaina (a successful TRM), East Beel Khuksia (a partially successful TRM), and Beel Pakhimara (an unsuccessful TRM). The level of success in TRM was decided from the local community’s perception and how the TRM operation reduced the drainage congestion and increased the sedimentation depth inside a tidal basin. Fifteen water quality parameters with seven indices and eight soil quality parameters were analyzed to evaluate their suitability for agricultural purposes. The analysis reveals that the water of Beel Bhaina and East Beel Khuksia has high salinity, TDS, TSS, SAR and Na% than that of Beel Pakhimara due to the presence of an active tidal current. The most dominant cation is Na+ in almost all the water samples due to the seawater influence. The most dominant anion is Cl− in Beel Bhaina and East Beel Khuksia, and HCO3− in Beel Pakhimara. The deposited sediment quality parameters are worse in the dry season than in the monsoon, except for organic matter. The soil EC of Beel Bhaina and East Beel Khuksia is low, which may be one of the reasons for good yield in these basins. The average yields of boro rice were 7.2, 7.7 and 6.4 ton/ha in Beel Bhaina, East Beel Khuksia and Beel Pakhimara, respectively, which might be related to the quality of the deposited sediment in the tidal basins and also to the level of TRM success.

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Water Policy and Governance in South Asia

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Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh: The politics and anthropology of contested access in large‐scale irrigation modernisation

Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh: The politics and anthropology of contested access in large‐scale irrigation modernisation

Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters

Variations in Water and Deposited Sediment Qualities in the Tidal River Basins of Bangladesh and Their Implications for TRM Success

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