The WASH crisis in Tejgaon is more than a story of deprivation. It is a litmus test of our collective conscience.
Projects on usable water should be expanded for greater impact
The municipal bodies must take water supply as their mandatory function more seriously and draw up a medium-term plan to bring 100 percent of urban population under a piped water supply network by 2030.
Nearly half of the country's “safe” water -- supplied from technologically-improved sources -- is contaminated with E. coli bacteria, which is responsible for various intestinal diseases, revealed a World Bank report released in the capital yesterday.
