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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Poor water quality robs many residents of access to safe drinking water


The illusion of a physical landscape, Bangladesh, and growing population, urbanization, and the only reason for the problems of poverty, the challenge is to prevent the increased stability. Bangladesh, China and India is currently the third largest population of poor households in the country. According to the United Nations for development, four-and five Bangladeshi poverty line (less than $ 2 per day), and three-wave trough in extreme poverty (less than $ 1 per day) living. Health, mortality, poverty, and despite improvements, a significant portion of the population lacks access to safe water and sanitation. The challenge will be to accelerate sustainable urban development.Many residents of the drinking water and poor water quality is used for steals. There are three main rivers in the delta of Bangladesh is located. Full of sediment surface, highly polluted water, and appealing, and expensive, slow and difficult to treat using water. Mixture of water quality, have high levels of arsenic in natural groundwater.. In addition, metropolitan cities, only 14 percent of slum households have access to clean toilets, and in 1999 about 50 percent of the total urban population in marginal or informal lived without the use of public services.Land of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers and flood plains 80 percent of the system is the most important, an important part of the country is flooded with water every year. Land about 21 percent of seasonal flood water, because every year it is covered by more than 3 feet. Land available for settlement, agricultural production and industrial PC is the natural phenomenon. Population of major cities and urban migration and settlement of torture continued to develop floodplain. Seasonal and immigrants who have been threatened by the presence of extreme events, flooding, poor in the slums. Seasonal increase in water flow in the future, climate change, to warn, cyclones and rising sea bass levels more stable, secure, low availability of land. 18 bleach and 1 meter rise in sea level of 11 percent of the population will be threatened.Water availability and quality of forces, and Bangladesh, the two most important areas of water security as the main threats emerge. First, flooding, lack of access to clean water, and lack of sanitary facilities in urban areas will continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods. Second, climate change, extreme events disrupting the livelihood and economy will be threatened by exaggeration. Institutional capacity, lack of funds and the solution can be hampered.

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