2009/02/02 by Muhammad Mizanur Rahaman · 69 citations
Social Sciences · #Drainage basin #Ecology #Environmental planning #Environmental resource management #Environmental science #Geography #Geology #Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact #Integrated water resources management #Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East #Riparian zone #Structural basin #Transboundary Water Resource Management #Water resource management #Water resources
paper · doi:10.2166/wp.2009.012
published in Water Policy 11(2), 168-190 (UWA Publishing)
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The aim of this research is to highlight the various factors relating to the water conflict among the riparian countries in the Ganges basin and to examine the potential benefits of integrated water development. Lack of cooperation between the nations involved who promote a nationalistic approach for the management of the basin have made integrated development difficult. This paper examines the issues related to the utilization of the Ganges water resources, regional water-based development potentials and views of riparian countries on integrated Ganges basin management. It identifies four types of prospective benefit from integrated Ganges basin management: benefits to the river; benefits from the river; reducing costs because of the river; and benefits beyond the river. Finally, it recommends guidelines to overcome the constraints to integrated Ganges management and, hence, achieve overall regional development. This paper stresses the need to develop an integrated water management approach intended to foster regional development and overcome the prospect of severe water conflict along the Ganges basin.