Bangladesh, Oct. 14 -- Adviser to Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Ministry of Water Resources Syeda Rizwana Hasan has called for equitable and cooperative management of shared water resources while addressing the 1st Session of the 6th Joint Meeting of the Working Groups on Integrated Water Resources Management and Monitoring & Assessment of the UN Water Convention, held today in Geneva, Switzerland.
Representing Bangladesh as its newly acceded member to the UN Water Convention, Rizwana Hasan highlighted the country's deep-rooted connection with rivers and underscored that "for Bangladesh, rivers are not just rivers - they are our lifeblood."
Bangladesh, she noted, is the world's largest river delta-formed by the...