Landscape Democracy 2015 Working Group C - Case Study 5

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Urban Waste water and Rain

Place name	Dhaka
Location	Dhaka
Country	Bangladesh
Author(s)	Md Abdulla Al-Mamun

Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar?

• Explanation of work.

Representation of your observations

• you are basically free to use one or a mix of different presentation techniques
• possibilities are: analytical drawings, graphical representations, collages, video clips, comic/graphic novel, written essay/visual essay
• please add any visual material to the gallery, videos can be placed below, you may add text as you like

• Observations
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Reflection

What are the major challenges for changing the situation?

Rapid urbanization and migration in Dhaka city already reaches the capacity. Stuck in water during rainy season is common image of this city. The amount of necessary infrastructure is very low comparing the urban growth of the city and the system of it. The amount of surface runoff is too much that it mixed with sewage system during this period. Another effect of Urbanization is filling the natural water sources such as lakes and ponds. In former time the city has lot of lakes and ponds which reserves the rain water and infiltrate. some time the lakes were connected with the river and the extra amount surface runoff could easily be transferred to the river. Similarly illegal occupancy and grabbing the land of river and lake decreases the capacity that results to short time flooding. Another important issue is the willingness of responsible authority that has a large impact on overall situation.

What could be a starting point for democractically-based change?

• Please add approx. 150 words for each questions

Stakeholder Mapping

Create a visual representation of the stakeholder groups that are involved in your case. Try to cover the following aspects in your representation: Power (high, medium, low) / Support (positive, neutral, negative)/ Influence (high or low)/ Need (strong, medium, weak)+ also map the relationships between the stakeholder groups

• Stakeholder Map
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  Stakeholder Map

Change Scenario

Understanding the Water Metabolism of the city is the major thing to change the scenario. Therefore, intervention in different scale my required to for changing the situation together with policy making and implementation phase.

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• Change Scenario_Small scale intervention
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Cross cutting theme

Identify a cross-cutting theme/topic between the cases of your group and write a short reflection on it (approx. 150 words)

Concluding reflections

Reflect on your case and your change model. Potentials? Limitations? (approx. 150 words)

References

* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.

* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.

* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.

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