[বাংলা] Children’s access to safe water and sanitation is a right, not a privilege
6 mins | 28 Oct 2018
শিশুদের নিরাপদ পানি এবং স্যানিটেশন পাত্তয়া একটি অধিকার, একটি বিশেষাধিকার নয়
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage. Preventing human contact with feces is part of sanitation, as is hand washing with soap.
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Importance of Rainwater Harvesting in Human Health
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‘Rainwater is a good alternative for drinking water in those areas where ground water contains a high concentrations of toxic materials such as arsenic/cadmium/nitrates/fluorides. Hence, rainwater harvesting need to be popularised in areas where water available for drinking contains high levels of such toxic ions.’
Bangladesh has an abundance of water, with around 24,000 km of rivers flowing through its fertile land. But providing water safe enough for everyone to drink is a complex national problem
https://www.wateraid.org/bd/
‘Over 4 million people people lacking access to ‘at least basic’ water.
Over 85 million people lack access to ‘at least basic’ sanitation.
Over 2,000 children under 5 die from diarrhoea.’
http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diarrhoeal-disease
Diarrhoeal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old. It is both preventable and treatable. Each year diarrhoea kills around 525 000 children under five. A significant proportion of diarrhoeal disease can be prevented through safe drinking-water and adequate sanitation and hygiene.
Globally, there are nearly 1.7 billion cases of childhood diarrhoeal disease every year. Diarrhoea is a leading cause of malnutrition in children under five years old.
https://bit.ly/2JJhIo6
2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as many lack safe sanitation.
Some 3 in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF.
https://uni.cf/2XhUN9J
Access to safely managed water is 56% for Bangladesh, meaning 71 million people do not have safely managed water. This includes arsenic and bacteriological contamination, which was not measured under the MDGs.
