Dhaka – Bangladesh’s Water Resource Problems
After the aid agencies pull out of Bangladesh following the recent cyclone, donations will stop coming into the area, 200 people will die every hour from poor living conditions and water contaminated with raw sewage. When the UN drew up its plans for millennium development goals sanitation was low on the agenda, and ensuring that the children of slum dwellers, such as in Dhaka, would have proper sanitation safeguarding their water supply did not feature. WaterAid states that the financing of education will go to waste if the children are too ill with diarrhoea to go to school. Britain is one of the few countries to make a priority of water and sanitation and has supported the military-backed government in Bangladesh in its attempt to provide 100% access to sanitation not by 2015 but by 2010. There is now 100% sanitation coverage, which is benefiting women in particular.
Source : Guardian Environmental News - http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/26/economics.naturaldisasters
