Bangladesh : Country Water Resources Assistance Strategy

Population growth combined with economic growth will increasingly stress water resources and this has the potential to be the dominant environmental and possibly the most important development issue facing Bangladesh in the coming half century. This Country Water Resources Assistance Strategy descri...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Other Environmental Study
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO SAFE WATER ACCESS TO WATER SUPPLY ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT AGRICULTURE AQUACULTURE AQUATIC HABITAT ARSENIC BASINS BRACKISH WATER BROAD RANGE BULK WATER CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CHANNEL CHANNELS CITY CORPORATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE COMMON GOOD COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT CONJUNCTIVE USE CONSERVATION CONSTRUCTION COST RECOVERY CROP PRODUCTION DISCHARGE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM DOMESTIC WATER DROUGHT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT EROSION EROSION CONTROL FARMERS FINANCIAL RESOURCES FISH FISHERIES FISHING FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD DAMAGE FLOOD MANAGEMENT FOOD CHAIN FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD SECURITY FORESTRY FRESH WATER FRESH WATER QUALITY GOVERNMENT FINANCING GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT GROUNDWATER RESOURCES HYDROMETRIC DATA IMPORTS INCOME INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LABOR FORCE LAND USE LAND USE MANAGEMENT LEGISLATION LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS LOCAL WATER MANAGING WATER RESOURCES MUNICIPALITIES NATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN NATIONAL WATER PLAN NATIONAL WATER POLICY PARTICIPATORY WATER MANAGEMENT PERMITS PESTICIDE USE PESTICIDES POLITICAL ECONOMY POLLUTION PONDS POPULATION DENSITIES POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POTABLE WATER PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC WATER PUMPS RAINFALL RIPARIAN RIPARIAN COUNTRIES RISK MANAGEMENT RIVER SYSTEM RIVERS RURAL SANITATION RURAL WATER RURAL WATER SUPPLY SAFE WATER SAFE WATER COVERAGE SAFE WATER SUPPLY SALINE INTRUSION SALINITY SANITATION COVERAGE SANITATION SERVICE SANITATION SERVICES SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDERS SERVICE PROVISION SEWERAGE AUTHORITIES SOILS SOLID WASTES SURFACE WATER SURFACE WATER DEVELOPMENT SURFACE WATER IRRIGATION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE USE SUSTAINABLE USE TOWN TRANSPARENCY URBAN URBAN AREAS URBAN CENTERS WASTEWATER WATER WATER ALLOCATION WATER AVAILABILITY WATER BODIES WATER CONTROL STRUCTURES WATER COVERAGE WATER DEVELOPMENT WATER DISTRIBUTION WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WATER IRRIGATION SYSTEMS WATER LEVELS WATER MANAGEMENT WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WATER PARTNERSHIP WATER POLICY WATER POLLUTION WATER QUALITY WATER RESOURCES WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT WATER SCARCITY WATER SECTOR WATER SERVICE WATER SERVICE DELIVERY WATER SERVICES WATER SOURCES WATER SUPPLIES WATER SUPPLY WATER SUPPLY ACTIVITIES WATER SUPPLY SERVICES WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS WATER SYSTEM WATER USE WATERWAYS WETLANDS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/12/6527597/bangladesh-country-water-resources-assistance-strategy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8402

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Summary:	Population growth combined with economic growth will increasingly stress water resources and this has the potential to be the dominant environmental and possibly the most important development issue facing Bangladesh in the coming half century. This Country Water Resources Assistance Strategy describes what the Bank can and will do to help improve country-level water management, and, thereby, assist the Government of Bangladesh in choosing water sector activities that the Bank can engage in strategically, that is, activities that are expected to have the most impact on long-term systemic challenges; that fit with the Bank's comparative advantages; and that support Bangladesh's Poverty Reduction Strategy implementation and complement the Bank's Country Assistance Strategy. The report identifies the following portfolio as priorities for World Bank engagement: 1) the institutional framework, including the responsibilities of different actors; and standards for water quality and service provision (especially for the poor), for the environment, for land use management, and for construction and management of infrastructure. 2) the management instruments, including regulatory arrangements; financial instruments; standards and plans; mechanisms for effective participation of stakeholders; and knowledge and information systems that increase transparency, motivate effective water allocation, use, and conservation, and secure maintenance and physical sustainability of the water resources system 3) the development and management of infrastructure, for irrigation, floods, and droughts, and for water quality and source protection. 4) the political economy of water management and reform, emphasizing the distribution of benefits and costs, and the incentives that encourage or constrain more productive and sustainable resource use and a pragmatic, sequenced and prioritized reform path.

Bangladesh : Country Water Resources Assistance Strategy

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