Persistent water crisis in Rangamati hills demands interventions

Nearly 3 crore people in 19 districts lack access to drinking water

When Razia Begum, now 56, got married at just 16, water was not a concern. Like most women in her village of Banisanta in Khulna’s Dacope upazila, she collected freshwater from nearby ponds. Life was simple, and water was abundant.

Residents of Thangkhroi Para, a centuries-old village in Bandarban Sadar upazila, are grappling with an acute drinking water crisis even before the peak of summer.

At the break of dawn, women of all ages -- daughters, mothers, homemakers -- set out in search for safe drinking water.

A few days ago around noon, rickshaw puller Abdus Salam dropped a passenger near Khamarbari intersection and got off his vehicle in front of a tea stall. He told the street vendor to give him a piece of bread and tea.

The authorities of secondary schools can reschedule classes amid a heat wave sweeping the country for the last three weeks.

The people in half of Pirojpur district, according to a report in this paper on February 28, are facing the worst crisis imaginable – lack of safe drinking water.

Companies never tire of boasting about their products, and consumers are easily enticed. But in the case of water purifiers and filters,

We applaud the initiative of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), Sajida Foundation, Concern Worldwide and Water Aid of opening a three...