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

New efforts to clean Bangladesh's rivers offer hope, but community involvement and innovation are key.

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.

Realising the critical role that water plays in establishing global peace, stability, and prosperity, the theme set for World Water Day 2024 is “Water for Peace.”

We must strive to ensure equitable access to clean water and bridge the gender gap in water security

Better water management can nourish people's lives

Because the control of water and natural resources is no longer in the hands of the people, their use is eventually meant to benefit a particular class.

Various reports on the occasion of World Water Day, observed on March 22, have brought the terrible foreboding of a scenario in which we will literally run out of water.

The next world war will be over water. And Bangladesh appears to be most oblivious of all amidst the grim global forecast.

There are hundreds of rivers in the northern and central part of the country which have been allowed to be silted up. At present, river

Last year, we met Subita Rani in a tea garden in Sreemangal. A former tea garden worker, Subita walks over half an hour each day,

Even three months ago, Josna Biswas of Chalna municipality in Khulna's Dakop upazila had to walk 1.5km twice a day to fetch two pitchers of water from the municipality pond.

When one walks into the Bihari Camp in Mohammadpur, locally referred to as the “Market Camp,” it is as though one has left the city and entered a different world- the world of the condemned.

ActionAid Bangladesh has taken the initiative of opening the first Water Museum in Asia.

South Asia has a long drawn history of rain water harvesting.