Shahriar Wahid, Mukand S. Babel, Abdur Rahman Bhuiyan
S. H. M. Fakhruddin, Akiyuki Kawasaki, Mukand S. Babel
Aysha Akter, Mukand S. Babel
Ashim Gupta, Mukand S. Babel, Xavier Albert, Ole Mark
Abstract This paper presents the general concepts and elements of integrated water resources management and the status of their adoption in Bangladesh at the national level. It describes the situation of the country with respect to the duality in the seasonal pattern of rainfall, the geographic posi...
Sudip Kumar Pal, Adebayo J. Adeloye, Mukand S. Babel, Ashim Gupta
Water resources development and management policies initiatives in Bangladesh are primarily driven by the need for sufficient food grain production for the country's teeming population and curtailing the perennial flooding problems. It is therefore necessary to investigate whether or not these objec...
Shahriar Wahid, Mukand S. Babel, Ashim Gupta, Roberto Clemente
Md. Reaz Akter Mullick, Mukand S. Babel, Sylvain Perret
ABSTRACT Studies estimating the value of irrigation water as a function of river discharge are rarely found in the literature; however, discharge‐based valuation carries significance when the in‐ and off‐stream uses are evaluated for optimal water allocation. This paper develops the total and margin...
Md. Reaz Akter Mullick, Mukand S. Babel, Sylvain Perret
This article describes a hydrologic–economic optimization model for allocating available river flow between competing off- and in-stream demands, based on the marginal benefits (MBs) of sectoral water uses in a segment of the Teesta River in Bangladesh. Irrigation, capture fishery and navigation are...
Mukand S. Babel, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Aakanchya Budhathoki, Kaushal Chapagain
This study evaluates the existing situation of the water energy and food resource interaction using an indicator-based approach and optimizes the resource use in the Karnafuli River Basin. A water allocation model based on an optimization tool, LINDO 6.1, with an objective function to maximize the e...
Mukand S. Babel, Shahriar Wahid
A water vulnerability analysis is made of how sensitivity characteristics of the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna (GBM) River basin may affect adaptive capacity. A co-riparian ‘country perspective’ highlights the importance of local level management actions. Results reveal that vulnerabilities in India and...
Md. Reaz Akter Mullick, Sylvain Perret, Mukand S. Babel
The functional relationship between benefit level and resource availability, which is demonstrated in a marginal benefit (MB) function but not in a total benefit (TB) function, is mostly absent in environmental valuation studies. This paper aims to establish the total and MB functions for instream w...
Mukand S. Babel, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Aakanchya Budhathoki, Kaushal Chapagain
Md. Reaz Akter Mullick, Mukand S. Babel, Doddi Yudianto, Krishna Prasad et al.
A cascading multiple-use water system in the Konto River Basin, Indonesia, has been examined to assess the cumulative benefits of water uses where water is sequentially used in three hydropower plants and then in an irrigation system from an upstream reservoir. Using a hydro-economic modeling, optim...
Shyamal Acharya, Mukand S. Babel, Md. Reaz Akter Mullick, Fahad Hasan et al.
This study evaluates the performance of the CWASA – a public water supply provider in Bangladesh – using six performance indicators. Relevant data was collected from the CWASA archive from 2004 to 2022, along with a questionnaire survey conducted on the city dwellers. The study reveals an increase i...
Sajal Kumar Adhikary, A. B. M. Irad Hossain, Mukand S. Babel
Barind Tract, largest Pleistocene physiographic unit of the Bengal Basin, recognized as a unit of Old Alluvium, which differs from the surrounding floodplains. The aquifer is the main source of water supply in the vicinity and is showing signs of contamination due to the existence of pollution sourc...