• Future role of non-government organizations in climate change adaptation in Bangladesh 

  Arif Chowdhury, Md. (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-02-11)

  Bangladesh is one of the most susceptible countries to climate change, while geographical and socioeconomic characteristics are accelerating the adverse condition. Following the increasing effects of climate change, it is ...
• Developing drought and heat wave scenarios for southwest Bangladesh using CMIP6 projections 

  Imtiaz, Zahid (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET 2025, 2025-06-18)

  Southwestern Bangladesh is increasingly becoming vulnerable to droughts and heat waves, which pose significant risks to water security, agricultural productivity, and human health. This study develops drought and heat wave ...
• Estimation of standard high and low water levels along Bangladesh coast using harmonic analysis 

  Abdul Munim, Md. (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-08-18)

  This study examines the current status and existing estimation approaches of Standard High Water Level (SHWL) and Standard Low Water Level (SLWL), which are two important datums used in the waterways of Bangladesh that ...
• Investigation of nonlinear surge-tide and wave interactions during selected cyclone events along the Bangladesh coast 

  Farhana Khadiza Liana (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2025-01-18)

  Storm surges, in combination with tidal and wave dynamics, can lead to severe levels of catastrophic flooding, critical damage to human infrastructure, and habitat disturbance in coastal zones during tropical cyclones. Due ...
• Sustainability of co-created flood proofing technologies in strengthening community resilience 

  Nadia Nowshin (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-09-21)

  Most of the small to medium scale flood mitigation technologies in Bangladesh are planned, designed and constructed in a top-down approach, ignoring the actual needs of the vulnerable communities and appropriateness of the ...
• Monitoring water budget components on ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins using earth observation data and machine learning models 

  Rownak Islam, Md. (Institute of Water and Flood Management, BUET, 2024-06)

  Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basins form one of the largest and most populous deltas in the world. These three rivers cover an area of approximately 1.7 million square kilometers including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, ...
• Re-construction of hydro-morphological history of Ichamoti river system by numerical simulation 

  Razzaque, Sadmina (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-08-18)

  The Ganges and the Brahmaputra-Jamuna are the two major rivers in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river systems. The Ichamoti is a unique river in this system in the sense that it connects these two major rivers. Over ...
• Assessment of household-level tipping points due to flood induced damages 

  Islam, Sumaiya Binte (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-08-24)

  The geographical location, lack of resources, huge rural population with fragile economic conditions and nature-based livelihood structure have made Bangladesh highly vulnerable to flooding and erosion. Majority of the ...
• High resolution evapotranspiration estimation from satellite remote sensing and data fusion for the northwest region of Bangladesh 

  Khan, Nafis Sadik (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-05-27)

  Sustainable irrigation development is essential for ensuring food security in Bangladesh, especially with the challenges posed by climate change. This research explores the possibility of obtaining reliable high-resolution ...
• Gendered vulnerability index for flood in Brahmaputra river floodplain 

  Nahin, Khadiza Tul Kobra (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-04-03)

  Flood vulnerability index has long been used as an essential tool to quantify the sufferings of the flood victims of Bangladesh. Enormous studies highlighted vulnerability to flood to be dependent on the physical exposures ...
• Assessing spatial thresholds for index-based water mapping with sentinel-2 satellite imageries over eastern hill tracts 

  Sayed, Saifullah (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-02-28)

  Threshold-based index approaches are highly successful in differentiating between water and non-water components in optical satellite images. More importantly, water index offers a high level of precision in monitoring ...
• Estimation of braided river bathymetry using optical and radar images for river erosion prediction 

  Muddassir Islam, Mohammad (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2023-11-13)

  The Brahmaputra-Jamuna River is renowned for its enormous flow and sediment load making its channels very dynamic and unstable. This pattern, which causes channel shifting and erosion of riverbanks, is noticeable every ...
• Investigation of modified SAR for safe drinking water supplies in arsenic and saline prone coastal area 

  Kirtunia, Ripan (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-06-23)

  Groundwater salinity and Arsenic contamination are the main causes of the drinking water crisis in the coastal areas of Bangladesh, particularly, in the south-west region. People have been using conventional Arsenic treatment ...
• Assessing drinking water security in socially deprived communities of the southeast coastal region of Bangladesh 

  Lima, Mahabuba Hasan (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-04-20)

  Marginalization possesses a political dimension as it is intricately connected to feelings of powerlessness, helplessness, and exclusion, wherein individuals on the margins are deprived of the ability to exert control over ...
• Multi-cascade pollution assessment and exposure pathways in floodplains of Tongi khal in northern Dhaka 

  Shawal, Shammi (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2024-04-30)

  The peripheral rivers of Dhaka are highly polluted through untreated industrial effluents and municipal discharges with limited regulatory oversight. This pollution becomes a multi-cascade phenomenon through inundation of ...
• Sedimentation induced risk on food security in the north-eastern haor region of Bangladesh 

  Nabil Shad, Md. (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2023-11-21)

  The northeastern region of Bangladesh is characterized by expansive and round-shaped floodplain depressions referred to as Haors. These areas face significant challenges, including sedimentation, flood inundation, poor ...
• Estimating salinity and concentration of chlorophyll-A in the Meghna estuary using landsat imagery 

  Zaman, Asaduz (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2023-10-07)

  Variations of salinity and Chlorophyll-a concentration are important parameters to identify the possible opportunity for effective management of the Meghna estuary. Traditional in situ measurement systems in the large ...
• Assessing groundwater recharge contribution of surface water and rainwater by isotopic and hydrogeochemical analyses in kushtia district. 

  Nabila Tabassum (Institute of Water and Flood Management, BUET, 2023-02-11)

  The Ganges Kobadak irrigation project is a significant and substantial initiative that is currently experiencing an irrigation insufficiency due to a deficit in water supply from the Ganges River. As a result, the contribution ...
• Potentiality of sediment flux to offset relative sea level rise of ganges delta in bangladesh 

  Mahmida Tul Urmi. (Institute of Water and Flood Management, BUET, 2023-10-31)

  Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta is characterized by abundance of natural resources and consists of large areas of low flat lands formed by the deposition of sediment from the three continental river systems, the ...
• Spatial and temporal changes of soil salinity in the coastal area of Bangladesh 

  Islam, M. Abrar Rubaiyat (Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, 2023-10-07)

  Soil salinity has been one of the long-term disasters in the coastal belt of Bangladesh for the last 20 years and does have the potential to increase in the next 60-70 years in allRepresentative Concentration Pathway (RCP) ...

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