There is significant evidence of frequent and rapid erosion and fast rates of bank line retreat along the river Brahmaputra-Jamuna within Bangladesh. This study is aimed at quantifying the actual rates of bank erosion along the river based on time series analysis of satellite images and historical maps.One of the main problem of the braided Brahmaputra-Jamuna River in Bangladesh is bank erosion, in places leading to hundreds of meters of bank retreat annually. Analysis of the Landsat images shows that, over the whole river, riverine islands most often persist from 1 to 7 years, but 30% have...

Disaster can occur at any time, in any place, in any dimension and may owe as much to the circumstances as to the scale of the event. With 140 million people, Bangladesh is one of the world's densest nations and also one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Bangladesh is widely known as a land of natural disasters and is highly vulnerable to flood, cyclone and river erosion. Every year, natural disasters have widespread effects on Bangladesh, touching every corner of the country. Due to limited resources, Bangladesh does not have the capacity to ensure that appropriate...

Small water bodies are one of the most productive ecosystems, highly significant for the sustenance and viable of human life, plants and animals. There are various types of Small water bodies such as Doba, Pond, Dighi, Khal and Beel in Bangladesh. All of these types of small water bodies are almost equally distributed all over the country, except for the beel, which is a natural, saucer shaped depression. These are commonly used for bathing and washing, fisheries and aquaculture, irrigation, cattle feeding and duck rising etc. In spite of the importance these to the local economy there is no...

Bangladesh has large quantity of water resources. The surface water resources comprise water available from flowing rivers and static water bodies as ponds, beels, haors etc. Different project have already working on Water Resources Management and Planning. KJDRP project is one of the largest project of south-west region (Khulna-Jessore) of Bangladesh. This project shows how to proper manage the water resources with increasing water demand. The aim of this paper is to know about water resources, its sources, uses, importance and assess the WRM condition of KJDRP on Jessore Sadar upazila. This...