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IWFM MSc student (WRD program) team became the winner of the 2025 Water Hackathon competition titled “Tackling Water Crisis in the Barind Region!”
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Date: January 25, 2026
The Barind region of Bangladesh continues to face severe water scarcity, as groundwater levels decline and climate change exacerbates local water stress. To inspire practical and community-focused solutions, Brac, in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada, Global Center on Adaptation, and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), organized the Water Hackathon 2025. The competition received 341 submissions from across the country, showing the national urgency around water security in the Barind Tract.
From this extensive pool of ideas, after a two-stage comprehensive assessment process, a student team led by IWFM, BUET – Team TIIR (The Inverse Irrigation Revolution) became the Winner for their project titled “Introducing Community-Based Novel Irrigation System for Sustainable Water Management in Barind Bangladesh.”
The team consists of Jimia Tabassum Suchi (M.Sc. student, WRD), Sadman Siam (M.Sc. student, WRD), and Mahade Hasan Sinha (M.Sc. student, CE) of BUET. The team worked under the supervision of Dr. Partho Das, Assistant Professor at IWFM.
The winning concept proposes a solar-powered subsurface irrigation system integrated with a digital water-credit platform. This approach aims to enhance irrigation efficiency, thereby reducing excessive groundwater abstraction and ultimately contributing to improvement in groundwater levels in Barind region of Bangladesh.
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IWFM arranged a Workshop titled – “Managing the Future of the Brahmaputra Jamuna River Systems in Bangladesh”