Bangladesh is facing unprecedented pressure on its water resources due to rapid urbanization, accelerated industrial expansion, population growth, and increasing climate vulnerability. As a result, conventional water supply and wastewater management systems are no longer sufficient to ensure safe water access, industrial continuity, public health protection, and environmental compliance.
Recognizing this critical challenge, the Government of Bangladesh is actively investing in modern water infrastructure, advanced wastewater treatment facilities, water conservation projects, and stronger regulatory enforcement. These strategic initiatives are generating large-scale demand across both public and private sectors for innovative and sustainable water and wastewater solutions. At the same time, key industries—including textiles, pharmaceuticals, food processing, manufacturing, energy, and chemicals—are under growing pressure to comply with environmental regulations, ESG standards, and operational efficiency requirements. This has significantly increased demand for high-performance water treatment, recycling, and wastewater management technologies. In parallel, rising concerns over water contamination and public health risks have accelerated the need for household, commercial, and institutional water purification systems. Consequently, manufacturers and technology providers specializing in RO, UV, UF, hybrid filtration, and advanced purification solutions are experiencing strong and sustained market growth. Furthermore, Bangladesh’s strategic geographic location and expanding market scale position it as a natural regional gateway for water and wastewater technology deployment across South Asia, including India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
Therefore, the market urgently requires advanced, efficient, and sustainable water technologies—ranging from purification and desalination to wastewater treatment, recycling, and smart water management—to support long-term economic growth, environmental protection, and water security.
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Industry Overview:
The Ministry of Water Resources is the apex body of the
Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh for development and
management of the whole water resources of the country. It formulates policies,
plans, strategies, guidelines, instructions and acts, rules, regulations, etc.
relating to the development and management of water resources, and regulation
and control of the institutions reporting to it. It prepares and implements
development projects relating to flood control and drainage (FCD); flood
control, drainage and irrigation (FCDI); riverbank erosion control; delta
development and land reclamation; etc. and provides irrigation, drainage, flood
protection, bank erosion protection, land reclamation facilities by
constructing barrages, regulators, sluices, canals, cross-dams, embankments and
sea-dykes along the banks of the rivers and the coast, etc. The Ministry,
through its implementing arm -the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB),
implements the FCD/FCDI and other development projects. It also collects, processes,
stores and disseminates hydrological and hydraulic data and information through
BWDB. It provides flood forecasting and warning information through Flood
Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC) of BWDB. The Ministry prepared the
Guidelines for Participatory Water Management (GPWM) and that is being widely
followed by the stakeholders at all levels.
The Ministry through its macro-planning arm –the Water Resources Planning
Organization (WARPO) prepared National Water Policy, the Coastal Zone Policy,
National Water Resources Database (NWRD), National Water Management Plan (NWMP)
and Integrated Coastal Resources Database (ICRD). Data can be collected from
WARPO for nominal charges.
The Ministry has also research and coordinating institutions such as River Research
Institute (RRI) responsible for physical and mathematical water modeling;
Bangladesh Haor and Wetland Development Board (BHWDB) for the development of
haors and wetlands. The Joint Rivers Commission, Bangladesh acts as the
secretariat of the Ministry for dealing with the sharing and management of the
waters of the trans-boundary rivers. The Ministry has two public trusty
organizations such as Institute of Water Modeling for mathematical water
modeling; and Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services
(CEGIS) for integrated environmental analysis using GIS, remote sensing (RS),
database and IT.
Other principal activities of the Ministry include expansion of irrigated
areas, water conservation, surface and groundwater use, estuary control,
anti-salinity measures and anti-desertification activities, re-excavation of
canals and rehabilitation of embankments, international cooperation, liaison
with the international organizations, processing matters relating to treaties
and agreements with other countries and world bodies in the field of water
development and management.
The Ministry of Water Resources is a development ministry. The Ministry has 4
wings namely Development Wing responsible for preparation, implementation and
monitoring of the aided projects; Planning Wing responsible for processing of
all projects for approval by the Planning Commission and preparation,
implementation and monitoring of projects solely funded by GoB, and release of
all funds of the development projects under ADP; Administrative Wing
responsible for the administration of the Ministry and the organizations
reporting to it; and Budget & Audit wing.
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