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Muzaffer calls for multinational pact on trans-boundary rivers
DHAKA, Bangladesh, June 28 (BSS)- Transparency International, Banagldesh chapter chairman Professor Muzaffer Ahmed today called for a multinational agreement among six Asian countries for the proper
utilisation of the water resources of the trans-boundary rivers
of the region.
Prof Muzaffar, also the chief of a leading environmental
watchdog, BAPA, said Nepal, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and
Bangladesh should sign a multilateral pact for optimum benefits
out of the region's international rivers.
"Otherwise our agricultural production will suffer severely,
millions will become homeless and the opportunities of employment
would be destroyed," he said while releasing the Global
Corruption Report-2008 on Water Corruption at the CIRDAP
auditorium.
Prof Muzaffer, also an economist, urged the World Bank and
European Union to help the countries of the region to reach an
agreement on the common rivers.
He, in this context, recalled the Indus Waters Treaty signed
by India and Pakistan in 1961 brokered by the World Bank.
The Berlin based Transparency International (TI)today
published the Global Corruption Report-2008 simultaneously from
Berlin, New York and Dhaka.
According to the report nearly 1.2 billion people in the
world have no guaranteed access to water and more than 2.6
billion are living without adequate sanitation.
The TI global report, this year, focused on corruption in
water sector, as according to it, the fight against corruption in
water became more urgent than ever before due to strains on the
basic and essential natural resource.
Corruption in the water sector, it said, put the lives and
livelihood of billion of people across the world at risk.
And more than three billion people would be affected by 2050
with the water crisis getting aggravated due to different forms
of corruption, said the report.
"Without increased advocacy to stop corruption in water,
there will be high costs to economic and human development, the
vital ecosystem of the earth might destroy in addition to
fuelling the social tension and conflict at national and
international level," said the report.
utilisation of the water resources of the trans-boundary rivers
of the region.
Prof Muzaffar, also the chief of a leading environmental
watchdog, BAPA, said Nepal, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and
Bangladesh should sign a multilateral pact for optimum benefits
out of the region's international rivers.
"Otherwise our agricultural production will suffer severely,
millions will become homeless and the opportunities of employment
would be destroyed," he said while releasing the Global
Corruption Report-2008 on Water Corruption at the CIRDAP
auditorium.
Prof Muzaffer, also an economist, urged the World Bank and
European Union to help the countries of the region to reach an
agreement on the common rivers.
He, in this context, recalled the Indus Waters Treaty signed
by India and Pakistan in 1961 brokered by the World Bank.
The Berlin based Transparency International (TI)today
published the Global Corruption Report-2008 simultaneously from
Berlin, New York and Dhaka.
According to the report nearly 1.2 billion people in the
world have no guaranteed access to water and more than 2.6
billion are living without adequate sanitation.
The TI global report, this year, focused on corruption in
water sector, as according to it, the fight against corruption in
water became more urgent than ever before due to strains on the
basic and essential natural resource.
Corruption in the water sector, it said, put the lives and
livelihood of billion of people across the world at risk.
And more than three billion people would be affected by 2050
with the water crisis getting aggravated due to different forms
of corruption, said the report.
"Without increased advocacy to stop corruption in water,
there will be high costs to economic and human development, the
vital ecosystem of the earth might destroy in addition to
fuelling the social tension and conflict at national and
international level," said the report.
