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The Joint Rivers Commission has not been much effective in resolving the issues of water sharing of transboundary rivers due to a lack of commitment from India and also for Bangladesh's technical incapacity to be persuasive.

And this has been affecting the ecology, environment and livelihoods of millions in Bangladesh.

Even though the neighbours share 54 rivers, and the JRC has been working since 1972, only one water-sharing deal – the Ganges -- was signed, and that too, two and a half decades ago. That treaty is set to expire in 2026.

The water ministers of the two countries have so far met 37 times and there have been many meetings of secretaries and technical committees. Yet, the JRC has very little to show for.

The JRC has now become a consultation platform and it does not have any executive power. It cannot take charge. It can only recommend and execute what the governments of the two countries decide, said Prof Shahab Enam Khan of international relations at Jahangirnagar University.

The discussions at the JRC meetings are not made public and the so-called decisions made there do not always reflect the people's desires. "If we want to make the JRC successful, the information provided to the JRC has to be made public," said the professor.

Water sharing between Bangladesh and India is more of a political issue than a technical one. "Hence, we need to enhance the capacity of our bureaucrats and technical experts to deal with hydro diplomacy and hydro politics," he said.

Activists and environmentalists alleged that India had built dams unilaterally on almost all transboundary rivers and has diverted water without Bangladesh's consent. Also Check High School Football Live

Sharif Jamil, general secretary of Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa), said the JRC was an ineffective platform. Delegates of the JRC were supposed to sit twice a year to solve issues but they do not do so.

BradfordWillams » 25 Aug 2022, 10:54 pm » wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2022, 10:54 pm

The Joint Rivers Commission has not been much effective in resolving the issues of water sharing of transboundary rivers due to a lack of commitment from India and also for Bangladesh's technical incapacity to be persuasive.

And this has been affecting the ecology, environment and livelihoods of millions in Bangladesh.

Even though the neighbours share 54 rivers, and the JRC has been working since 1972, only one water-sharing deal – the Ganges -- was signed, and that too, two and a half decades ago. That treaty is set to expire in 2026.

The water ministers of the two countries have so far met 37 times and there have been many meetings of secretaries and technical committees. Yet, the JRC has very little to show for.

The JRC has now become a consultation platform and it does not have any executive power. It cannot take charge. It can only recommend and execute what the governments of the two countries decide, said Prof Shahab Enam Khan of international relations at Jahangirnagar University.

The discussions at the JRC meetings are not made public and the so-called decisions made there do not always reflect the people's desires. "If we want to make the JRC successful, the information provided to the JRC has to be made public," said the professor.

Water sharing between Bangladesh and India is more of a political issue than a technical one. "Hence, we need to enhance the capacity of our bureaucrats and technical experts to deal with hydro diplomacy and hydro politics," he said.

Activists and environmentalists alleged that India had built dams unilaterally on almost all transboundary rivers and has diverted water without Bangladesh's consent. Also Check High School Football Live

 

Muslims and Hindus - what are ya gonna do? 
 

BradfordWillams » 25 Aug 2022, 10:54 pm » wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2022, 10:54 pm

The Joint Rivers Commission has not been much effective in resolving the issues of water sharing of transboundary rivers due to a lack of commitment from India and also for Bangladesh's technical incapacity to be persuasive.

And this has been affecting the ecology, environment and livelihoods of millions in Bangladesh.

Even though the neighbours share 54 rivers, and the JRC has been working since 1972, only one water-sharing deal – the Ganges -- was signed, and that too, two and a half decades ago. That treaty is set to expire in 2026.

The water ministers of the two countries have so far met 37 times and there have been many meetings of secretaries and technical committees. Yet, the JRC has very little to show for.

ssdppsw

same **** different population performing same way.

No matter where humans deny life as eternity changes population here ancestries rather believe in immortal intellectual minds than relative evolving mutually alive now.

Cannonpointer » 25 Aug 2022, 11:04 pm » wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2022, 11:04 pm

Muslims and Hindus - what are ya gonna do?

At least the Ganges has had the full protection for 25 years. Good commission.
The other rivers are probably in real trouble...


 The Ganges.
 

DeezerShoove » 26 Aug 2022, 7:21 am » wrote: ↑

26 Aug 2022, 7:21 am

At least the Ganges has had the full protection for 25 years. Good commission.
The other rivers are probably in real trouble...


 The Ganges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeAQYSHjIU

roadkill » 28 Aug 2022, 3:04 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Aug 2022, 3:04 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeAQYSHjIU

was it the drought or that new world's biggest dam they built a few years ago that had some scientists saying it would make the planet wobble out of orbit around the star.

omh » 28 Aug 2022, 3:59 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Aug 2022, 3:59 pm

was it the drought or that new world's biggest dam they built a few years ago that had some scientists saying it would make the planet wobble out of orbit around the star.

I don't know.

roadkill » 28 Aug 2022, 4:16 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Aug 2022, 4:16 pm

I don't know.

hint, hoover Damn and Lake mead. man made disasters promising better tomorrows pretending life isn't limited to living as eternally separated now as ancestrally here.

look to the government for water, food, education. healthcare and when to take a ****......that's progressive Utopia living...but what do we call government?...Momma?...Pappa?......or maybe God?

BradfordWillams » 25 Aug 2022, 10:54 pm » wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2022, 10:54 pm

The Joint Rivers Commission has not been much effective in resolving the issues of water sharing of transboundary rivers due to a lack of commitment from India and also for Bangladesh's technical incapacity to be persuasive.

And this has been affecting the ecology, environment and livelihoods of millions in Bangladesh.

Even though the neighbours share 54 rivers, and the JRC has been working since 1972, only one water-sharing deal – the Ganges -- was signed, and that too, two and a half decades ago. That treaty is set to expire in 2026.

The water ministers of the two countries have so far met 37 times and there have been many meetings of secretaries and technical committees. Yet, the JRC has very little to show for.

The JRC has now become a consultation platform and it does not have any executive power. It cannot take charge. It can only recommend and execute what the governments of the two countries decide, said Prof Shahab Enam Khan of international relations at Jahangirnagar University.

The discussions at the JRC meetings are not made public and the so-called decisions made there do not always reflect the people's desires. "If we want to make the JRC successful, the information provided to the JRC has to be made public," said the professo
 

I keep thinking when I see that fast,?
Joan Rivers crippled.? The med establishment did kill her with mistakes you know.  
 

omh » 28 Aug 2022, 4:18 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Aug 2022, 4:18 pm

hint, hoover Damn and Lake mead. man made disasters promising better tomorrows pretending life isn't limited to living as eternally separated now as ancestrally here.

Did you warn them?  Did you have a better plan?

nefarious101 » 28 Aug 2022, 4:21 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Aug 2022, 4:21 pm

look to the government for water, food, education. healthcare and when to take a ****......that's progressive Utopia living...but what do we call government?...Momma?...Pappa?......or maybe God?

I like the start of your thinking this way, however you are keeping a loophole out of the conversation. Chain of command directing social results forward from here that aren't ancestrally related to everyone alive in the current 5 generations present.