Step-1: Visiting of the Whole Area
- Survey work has been conducted for 12 months, from Jan’05 to December’05.
- Using of the resource full libraries of different institutions to square knowledge about different national and international water management projects.
- Almost the whole areas were visited well enough to observe and know the way of the project execution with a specialist.
- Different hydrology measuring stations were observed properly when they were performing their duties.
- Different Important choras were observed.
- Different types of dam were observed with their constructional specialties.
- Getting of information from different field offices.
- Observation of the conditions of the flood control structures with the effects.
Step-2: Consultations with the Stakeholders
- Consultation was done under RRA (Rapid rural appraisal) and PRA (Participatory rapid appraisal) projects.
- Consultations with different peoples of different places and standards about the present situation.
- Consultations with different peoples of different places and standards about their thinking of solutions with their benefits.
Step-3: Consultation with the Specialists
Consultation with Hydrologists Consultation with different hydrologists was done in different context of Hail haor. Flow pattern of water of Hail haor, different flood problem, causes, after effects etc. were being discussed with him. Effect of the projects on natural hydrology was also being discussed with him.
Consultation with Environmentalists: Present condition of the environment on Hail haor was being discussed with him. Effects of the running projects on the environment were also being discussed.
Consultation with Construction Engineers: Consultation with the dam designers and engineers was being done. Constructing materials with the design considerations and the objectives of the dam was discussed with practical observations in field with future plans.
Consultation with the Hydrology Monitoring Personnel: Consultation with the monitoring personnel was being done in details. How the instruments works was being observed.
Step-4: Taking Help from GIS Lab: Different uses of GIS in planning, monitoring and future prediction were discussed. Ecology, depth of the haor in different positions, moisture holding ecosystem of different stages, geographical locations, agricultural land, settlements, hilly regions etc were discussed with them through the satellite image of Hail haor.
Step-5: Sustainability Evaluation with Checklist Method: 200 experts from different government and non government organizations like BWDB *(Bangladesh Water Development Board), CEGIS (centre for Environment and Geographical Information System), IWM (Institute of Water Modeling) and NGO’s related with wetland management (MACH, IDEA, IUCN) have been introduced a scale on environmental parameters for sustainability checking which was experienced in an undergraduate thesis. From the checklist, the sustainability has been evaluated.
Scale of point measurement
Impacts Severity (s)
1=No effect
2=Minor effect (single receptor)
3=Minor effect (multiple receptor)
4=Significant effect (single receptor)
5=Significant effect (multiple receptor)
6= Dynamic effect on single/multiple receptor
Probability (p)
1=Negligible
2=Slight
3=Possible
4=Likely
5=Very likely
6=Inevitable