• Engineer Sheikh Mohammad Nurul Islam

Bangladesh is a low-lying deltaic country with a complex active delta; it has numerous rivers, canals and coast creeks with extensive flood plains through which surface water of about 1.7 million sq-km drains annually. Floods are everyday monsoon phenomena in the deltaic plains of Bangladesh. However present study has conducted to find out the institutional issues of the water resource management project of Bangladesh. The study has conducted at urban and rural area of in Bangladesh. The present study is survey type. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources. Total 500 people from the stake holders in selected areas were selected for the study. Questionnaires, Focus group discussion, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) were used for primary data collection. Computer Program Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Microsoft Excel was used for data analysis. From the result it was found that although the livelihood of the people in Bangladesh is well adapted to normal monsoon floods, the damages due to inundation, riverbank erosion or breach of the embankment, etc., still occur in various regions in almost every monsoon. They often have disastrous consequences: significant damage to infrastructure, great loss of property, crops, cattle, poultry etc., human suffering and impoverishment of the poor. With every major flood in Bangladesh, food security and poverty are adversely affected. The characteristic of rivers varies from region to region. FFWC and BWDB monitored the flood situation during and beyond the monsoon if the situation was in demand. The FFWC has issued daily flood bulletin from May to October with a forecast lead-time of 24hrs, 48hrs and 72hrs, 96 hrs., and 120 hrs. (upto 5 days) along with warning messages and flood inundation maps. Mobile-based IVR systems improved dissemination significantly. Also, 16 new flood forecasting points have been added to the system. These are the new efforts to make a more localized flood forecast. In addition to deterministic flood forecasts up-to 5-days lead time, FFWC issued medium range up to 10-days lead-time probabilistic forecasts at 38 locations. FFWC has attempted to use satellite-based (Jason-2 Satellite Altimeter Data under SERVIR program of NASA) information of the upper catchment with a free download facility for extending the flood forecast lead time up to eight days. This study was done to analyze flood forecasting and management. Climate change and extreme climatic impacts are increased in recent years. Flood in Bangladesh is common, but the secondary data are shown that flood forecasting is well developed, but the problems are information dissemination and communication. The community doesn’t involve the dissection-making and warning system of the flood. The community-based early warning system has been developed.

Flood, Water, Management, River, Canal, Embankment, Forecasting and Warning, Infrastructure, People participation, Stakeholder, Irrigation, Drainage

"Water/Flood Management and Institutional Issues in Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.h573-h587, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307770.pdf

"Water/Flood Management and Institutional Issues in Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. pph573-h587, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307770.pdf