ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores how the realization of fundamental human rights is dependent on the characteristics of the socioecological system and on the movement of water through it. Water right protection from the Ganges Basin flow can secure the ecosystem dependent agricultural production. It describes that the Ganges River water right, including the right to the ecosystem services it provides, is the prerequisite for maintaining other human rights. The book focuses on the local effects of government interventions at Chapra, the scale of the interventions has necessarily required some consideration of more distant impacts. The secondary data along with fieldwork evidence were helpful for describing the ecological characteristics and hydropolitics. It considers the Ganges Dependent Area (GDA) in Bangladesh to describe deeper effects of these interventions. The book discusses the large and medium farmers as the rich and intermediate farmers respectively.
