WATERKEEPERS BANGLADESH

home_header_bg3Waterkeepers Bangladesh (WKB) is the regional entity of Waterkeeper Alliance (WKA); the fastest-growing international organization of water advocates based in New York having more than 290 members currently across the globe. In Bangladesh, there are four members functional under WKB and those are administered by Blue Planet Initiative (BPI) a not-for-profit social organization based in Dhaka.

Buriganga Riverkeeper is the first member of the WKA in Bangladesh which was approved in 2009. In 2014, the Khowai River Waterkeeper and Surma River Waterkeeper were approved by the WKA. In 2015, WKB, the regional entity for Bangladesh, was declared and all the members of WKA in Bangladesh were brought under WKB. In 2016, Pashur River Waterkeeper achieved membership of the WKA, and Voice of the Old Brahmaputra River got the affiliate membership of WKA.