Water policy and governance for the empowerment of river basin communities in rural Bangladesh
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2014-09
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University of British Columbia
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The study describes the effects of regional hydropolitics on water management, focusing on three large engineering projects, the Farakka Barrage built by India on the Ganges River, and the Ganges-Kobodak Gorai River Restoration Projects in Bangladesh. The traditional livelihood strategies and local ecological knowledge of farming households in the community of Chapra, Kushtia District, Bangladesh is being displaced by a commoditized system created through government intervention. The human right to water is being systematically violated. Governance systems of Bangladesh and India are herein understood as ecocracies – highly centralized bureaucratic systems where resources are controlled by elite groups following neoliberal goals.
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BANGLADESH, GANGES RIVER, FARAKKA BARRAGE, WATER MANAGEMENT, HYDROLOGY, HYDROPOLITICS, NEOLIBERALISM, SOUTH ASIA, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, ECOSYSTEMS, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, AGRICULTURAL INNOVATIONS, FLOOD CONTROL, RIGHT TO WATER, BASIC NEEDS, LIVELIHOODS, INDIA, RIVER BASINS