Bangladesh
Bangladesh: school debate on safe water and sanitation
20 May 09
BRAC is organising a year-long country-wide school debate competition as part of its awareness campaign on safe water, sanitation coverage and hygiene practices among the underprivileged population.
Bangladesh, Dhaka: unusually early outbreak of diarrhoea
29 Apr 09
A lack of safe drinking water due to increased temperatures and continuous power outages has resulted in an unusually early outbreak of diarrhoeal diseases across Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh: underground piping system presented at World Bank Water Week
22 Mar 09
An underground irrigation and drinking water supply system developed by the Rural Development Academy in Bangladesh was presented at the World Bank Water Week in Washington, USA, on 19 February 2009.
Bangladesh: government reaffirms promise to make drinking water arsenic-free by 2013
12 Feb 09
Speaking at the biennial conference of the Bangladesh Chemical Society on 30 January, Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhit reaffirmed the government's pledge to make the country's drinking water arsenic free by 2013.
Bangladesh: 75% of complaints by water consumers receive no response
12 Feb 09
A survey of 400 clients of the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) in four divisional cities in Bangladesh has revealed that 75% of complaints received no response.
Bangladesh: Election promises on water and sanitation
19 Jan 09
Prior to the December 2008 elections in Bangladesh, won by the Awami League-led grand alliance, Tareq Salahuddin reviewed what the main parties had to say about water and sanitation in their manifestos.
Bangladesh: Caritas helps improve sanitation and hygiene in flood-prone areas
19 Jan 09
Caritas, the social-service organisation of the Bangladesh Catholic Church, has built new homes and installed latrines in flood-prone communities in Bangladesh. It has also trained local people to promote good sanitation and hygiene in the communities.
Bangladesh: 22 million under-fives immunised against polio
11 Dec 08
Government health workers and 600,000 volunteers in Bangladesh have immunised 22 million children under the age of five against polio. The aim is to make the country polio-free by 2011.
Bangladesh: community participation project brings clean drinking water to 10,000 Bangladesh villagers
11 Dec 08
A unique project run by the Social Development Foundation and the World Bank has brought clean drinking water to 10,000 villagers in 12 districts in rural Bangladesh. The project gives communities full ownership of the system.
Bangladesh: sanitation coverage only 39 percent
25 Nov 08
At a ceremony to launch the WaterAid Global Report on sanitation, representatives of WaterAid Bangladesh said that, despite government claims of 88 per cent, actual sanitation coverage in the country is only 39 percent.
