Dhaka Water-logging: Causes, Effects and Remedial Policy Options

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the causes and effects of water-logging in Dhaka city, highlighting urbanization issues and proposing remedial policy options to address the environmental and health challenges.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive analysis of Dhaka's topography, drainage systems, and man-made causes of water-logging, along with potential remedial measures.

Findings

Unregulated urbanization exacerbates water-logging.

Water-logging leads to health and infrastructural issues.

Proposed remedial policies aim to mitigate water-logging effects.

Abstract

Water-logging is a major challenge for Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh. The rapid, unregulated, and unplanned urbanization, as well as detrimental social, economic, infrastructural, and environmental consequences, not to mention diseases like dengue, challenge the several crash programs combating water-logging in the city. This study provides a brief contextual analysis of the Dhakas topography and natural, as well as storm water drainage systems, before concentrating on the man-made causes and effects of water-logging, ultimately exploring a few remedial measures.