The people of Khulna-Satkhira used to travel easily from the heart of Khulna’s Paikgacha municipality to Sibsa river by boat. Thousands of people live around this river. However, due to severe drought, the river has now become a drain filled with silt. The giant Char is waking up. The competition is going on to occupy the place of that pasture and river. As a result, Paikgacha municipality is constantly being flooded with tidal water. Again, in the same river, there has been a strong fault towards Garh-Ikhali. As a result, the people of Shivsa Par are suffering. Similarly, poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s memorial Kapotaksha River is slowly deteriorating due to illegal encroachment, pollution, filling and breaching. Not only that, but due to various reasons caused by climate change and human beings, the rivers and rivers of the southwestern region are in crisis like the rest of the country. As a result, the livelihood, wealth, food, water, shelter and other crises of the people along the river are being created and the number of displacement of people is increasing. If effective steps are not taken to overcome this crisis, the South-West sub-tropical region will become depopulated in the near future. To deal with this crisis, the international organization “Waterkeepers-Bangladesh” and the civic organization “Sundarban and Upakal Protection Movement” have been carrying out various programs for a long time with the people of that region. Under his leadership, a civil dialogue was organized at Paikgacha Upazila Parishad Auditorium on Wednesday at 10:30 am. Under the chairmanship of Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mohammad Al-Amin, Professor Mir Mohammad Ali, Head of Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, presented a concept paper in the civic dialogue entitled ‘Filling-Encroachment-Pollution of Rivers with Reeds-Shivasa: Urgent Actions’. Sharif Jamil, coordinator of Waterkeepers-Bangladesh and former general secretary of Bangladesh Environment Movement (BAPAR) was the main discussant in the dialogue moderated by journalist Nikhil Chandra Bhadra, coordinator of Sundarbans and Upakal Suraksha Andolan organization. Paikgacha Mayor Salim Jahangir, Upazila Parishad Vice Chairman Shiabuddin Feroz Bulu, Lipika Dhali, Councilor Mahabur Rahman Ranju, Kavita Rani Dash, UP Chairman Md. Kawsar Ali Jowarddar, Ripon Mandal, Head Teacher Rahima Akhtar Shampa, Former Principal Harekrishna Das, General Secretary of Anirban Library Prabhat Debnath, besides elected public representatives of local government of Khulna, Koira, Tala, Satkhira, freedom fighters, journalists of various electronic and print media, environment activists. Leaders, representatives of civil society and interested common people participated.