Improving Access to Safe Water in Bangladesh

According to the Millennium Development Goals Report 2012, “783 million people, or 11 per cent of the global population, remain without access to an improved source of drinking water. Such sources include household connections, public standpipes, boreholes, protected dug wells, protected springs and rainwater collections.” (United Nations, 2012) The United Nations Water Conference in 1977 along with a few other conferences, addressed helping approximately “1.3 billion people in developing countries gain access to safe drinking water.” (United Nations, 2012) While there is progress being made, we see that various regions without clean drinking water. Reports show, “In four of nine developing regions, 90 per cent or more of the population now uses an improved drinking water source. In contrast, coverage remains very low in Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa, neither of which is on track to meet the MDG drinking water target by 2015. Over 40 per cent of all people without improved drinking water live in sub-Saharan Africa.” (United Nations, 2012) It is shown that rural areas still lack drinkable water as opposed to urban areas. Consistent improvement has been made to supply populated areas with a reliable source of drinking water. However, research shows, “Coverage with improved drinking water sources for rural populations is still lagging. In 2010, 96 per cent of the urban population used an

Having had the chance to travel to some the most primitive areas around the world for missions work, lack of clean water affects the health and hygiene of a people. Improper disposal of human waste and trash are key contributors to water contamination in underdeveloped countries. “In 2016, 143 communities and 57 schools received clean water in Sierra Leone, Kenya and Uganda” (“2016 Annual Report”). Organizations, like The Water Project, are making great efforts around the world to make a difference in these areas by installing wells and providing water purification systems. Until the proper infrastructure is in place, bottled water is the perfect stopgap. Bottled water can provide those living in these unreached areas a way to get their daily intake of water without fear of sickness.

Around the world people are suffering from the problem of having a safe and clean water, there are more than 633 million people lack access to safe water. Remote countries in Africa are mostly the victim of having unsanitary water sources.

Bangladesh is a very weak and undeveloped country and has some of the worst health and nutrition data. Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy with 6 divisions and 64 local districts. Bangladesh used to be a part of Pakistan before the turmoil in Pakistan caused Bangladesh to become its own independent country in the 1970s. Much of the nutrition, education and economy is damaged because of the swell in population growth and political issues. in 2000 the World Health Organization approximated 35 to 77 percent of the water in Bangladesh contains arsenic. However, the country has improved and education, the economy and nutrition baselines have risen closer to expected outcomes.

Water is the protection of life. Many countries are lack of water ,and many people do not know how to cherish water in our country .A lot of people to waste water every day, since all of them just take it for granted. We should consider that Water- poor countries are faced with the seriousness of water problem and how much water they can handle, and are also focused at how to adopt measures to facilitate a continuous supply of clean water to developing countries.

The thesis, The Water Crisis in Third World Countries, By Monterey Starkey from the Honors program at Liberty University describes the difficulty of obtaining adequate drinking water and presents solutions to this issue. Starkey begins by noting the importance water has on the human body. Additionally, Starkey explains, fresh water is becoming scarce which makes water transportation difficult to needy areas. Aquifers and rainwater are possible solutions to water transportation (Starkey 9). The cost of water in poverty-stricken are much higher than those in rich areas (Starkey 10). The article also implies water shortages affect community growth (15). Starkey believes filtering, boiling, chlorinating, educating, harvesting, roof catching and

The people of Bangladesh have a dire need of clean and drinkable water. Bangladesh is on the coast of the Indian Ocean and is rather flat. The terrain is marshy with a jungle near the coastline. The Ganges Delta and its connected rivers divides the country.The people of India, which is right next to Bangladesh, are also experiencing the issue of obtaining clean drinking water. People in Bangladesh need help from the outside world. They are in serious need of clean and sanitary water. The World Health Organization, which is a subsidiary of the United Nations and works side by side with governments around the world to ensure the highest attainable

Millions of people throughout the world, especially those in third world countries, do not have access to clean drinking water. Throughout the world, there are many countries that do not have the means to provide safe drinking water to their entire population. Drinking non-purified water can lead to many illnesses and in some cases death. Having been to India, just one of the countries with limited access to clean drinking water, I have seen and experienced these problems first hand.There are many products and processes that help address this problem. These solutions range from low tech solutions, like repairing old wells, to the high-tech solutions like personal water purifiers that filter the water as you walk. While these solutions are possible,

In the article, Contamination of drinking-water by Arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency, Allan Smith et al. explain the history of arsenic in water, as well as, potential recommendations from improvement. Before moving further into the article, I would like to provide some brief background on Bangladesh. The authors describe Bangladesh as a place that is “grappling with the largest mass poisoning of a population in history because groundwater used for drinking has been contaminated with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic” (Smith 2000). This was identified in 1983 when multiple cases of skin lesions were identified and related back to the water coming from tube wells. In terms of prevalence of arsenic, they found that around 30 percent of the tube wells had high arsenic concentrations. However, a year later in 1997, they found that 91 percent of the well had high concentrations of arsenic. The authors found that “Based on population density measured in 1998, this group estimated that the number of people exposed to arsenic concentrations above 50 mg/l was about 21 million” (Smith 2000). As a result of this study and many others, the authors came up with some recommendations to put focus towards

In developing countries, still lacking access to clean water and hygienic sanitation that cause result in the suffering of million people from preventable diseases and die every year. About 58% people living in eastern Asia without access to improve sanitation and 30% don’t have access to clean water that causes result in 10 children (per thousand) have died in each year in this region. In south Asia, more than 60% people living without access to improve sanitation and 40% living without access to clean water and caused of annual death of 15 children per thousand. While South Eastern Asia this rate has been decreased, 45% people don’t have access to improve sanitation and 25% living without access to clean and safe water that causes of annual

It seems that we still think that we have plenty of water on the ground and it is hard to even imagine that the water would be gone. But the true is that water is becoming scarcer in today world. Our growing demand for water with the lack of enough water or lack of access to safe water should worry all of us. It is not only problem of poorest countries where water will be scarcest soonest, but this is becoming the issue of global scale. In face of climate change, pollution and over-use of water we all need to take actions to protect this very important natural resource, that without it will be no life on earth. In today world clean, safe drinking water is scarce more and more. Nearly 1 billion people in the developing world do not have access to it. Yet, we take it for granted, we waste it, and

Water is essential for us to live and yet there are still so many issue linked to contamination of water and the health of people. “A large proportion of the World’s population – around 1.1 billion people – does not have access to improved sources of water”(Thompson et al., 2003). Many people take for granted their ability to access clean water. When in reality this problem has been occurring for a very long time and affects a vast amount of people. “The first documented attempts to treat drinking water, which may date back to 4000 B.C., were recorded in Greek and Sanskrit writings”(Barry M and Hughes J, 2008). Even with the technology and knowledge we have today this problem is still occurring. In order to fully understand its implications on people it has to be looked at in a global context.

1,300 million people in this world do not have access to drinking water – as a result, 80% of illnesses are caused by contaminated drinking water.

Life on the earth is largely shaped by the availability and access to clean and safe water. Indeed, water is an essential component in the industrial, agricultural, transport, among other economic and social sectors. However, a research done by UNICEF(2012) states that “Over 780 million people are still without access to improved sources of drinking water and 2.5 billion lack improved sanitation.“ The majority of this population is residing in the arid areas, which account for a third of the total global mass. Water scarcity and salinity are major hindrances to the social and economic development in these areas. Notably, the demand for clean water

Source apportionment, distribution and mobilization of arsenic (As) in groundwater are hot topic that have received a significant attention among the scientific communities in the last two decades as a consequence of the human health risk associated with ingestion of As-containing water in the Ganges delta region (Welch and Stollenwerk 2003; Reza and Jean 2012; Joseph et al. 2015). Geochemical process of As in groundwater is increasing with time, which aggravates anxiety due to its toxic effects for the human. It is reported that 35 million of the residents in Bangladesh and West Bengal of India are exposed to the potential health risk of As poisoning (Chowdhury et al. 1999; BGS and DPHE 2001). High concentrations of As are mainly limited to sedimentary strata of Holocene age in Bangladesh and West Bengal of India (Bhattacharya et al. 1997; Ahmed et al. 2004). Unfortunately, most of the environmental problems associated with As are the results of mobilization from geogenic sources under natural reducing condition (Nickson 1998; Reza et al. 2013). Arsenic can be released into groundwater by reductive dissolution of Fe(III) oxy- hydroxides (Bhattacharya et al. 1997; Nickson et al. 2000; Harvey et al. 2002). Furthermore, several studies have stated that chemical fertilizers and organic wastes may enhance As into groundwater by ionic reaction with phosphorus resultant from fertilizers (Chowdhury et al. 1999; Anawar et al. 2006).