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Tahirpur (Sunamganj)

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A northern border haor upazila of Sunamganj abutting Meghalaya, home to the great Tanguar Haor wetland and hill-foot stone trade.

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

1. climate disaster Flash floods pouring off the Meghalaya hills into Tahirpur's haors arrive early in the pre-monsoon, repeatedly hitting the boro crop before harvest. So what: Trans-boundary hill runoff drowns the single rice crop with little lead time. Source: Department of Disaster Management
2. environment Tahirpur's Tanguar Haor and surrounding wetlands face pressure from overfishing, dry-season dewatering, and habitat loss, threatening the fisheries and migratory-bird systems livelihoods depend on. So what: Degrading the haor erodes both the fishery and its ecological value. Source: Department of Environment
3. water Boro fields here depend on aging submersible embankments that breach when the haors fill ahead of the harvest. So what: Embankment failure floods the crop before it ripens. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board

Probable solutions

• Designate and enforce dry-season fish sanctuaries and water-retention beels under community co-management at Tanguar Haor Responsible: Department of Fisheries / Department of Environment · policy proposal
• Pre-monsoon cash-for-work support and boro-timed crop insurance against early hill-fed flash floods Responsible: Department of Disaster Management / Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief · policy proposal