Some two and a half lakh residents at Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj district have been facing acute shortage of drinking water because of salinity and arsenic contamination in the ground water.
The villagers at remote places are now facing acute drinking water crisis during the summer because of fall in the ground water level, high salinity and arsenic contamination in the area.
A total of 2,275 people were affected with diarrhoea across the country in past 24 hours till 5:00pm on Tuesday, according to the health services control room.
Seven hundred and 21 diarrhoeal patient were admitted to the ICDDR,B hospital during this time, said the control room record.
Residents of different areas surrounding Kumargaon Electricity Plant in Sylhet city formed a human chain on Saturday, demanding immediate measures to check noise pollution caused by the power plant.
Seven people died of diarrhoea in the Dhaka city and Jossore in the past seven days till 5:00pm on Friday as waterborne diseases spread in many parts of the country because of contaminated water and hot and humid weather, according to the health control room.
Dhaka will take an initiative for holding a regional dialogue on water sharing of the trans-border rivers as the upper riparian India continues unilateral withdrawal of waters depriving Bangladesh of its due share.
Kidney diseases among the people under 15 are on the rise and they now constitute half of the total renal patients in the country, renal specialists said on Wednesday.
The nephrologists said an estimated 49 lakh adolescents and children suffer from different kidney aliments and 50 thousand of them die each year due to renal failure. Ninety per cent of these patients die without treatment.
A climate change study cell was launched at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday in a bid to create awareness of climate change risk.
Speakers at the launching ceremony said the low-lying topography, natural disasters and widespread poverty, high population and poor institutional development have made Bangladesh more vulnerable to climate changes.
The government has asked the Indian regime to suspend construction of the Tipaimukh dam on the River Barak in the state of Assam in India, on the upstream of the River Meghna in Bangladesh.
