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.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/arsenic-salinity-pose-health-hazard-munshiganj
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/new-age-bangladesh
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-salinisation
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/groundwater
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arsenic
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water-scarcity
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/who
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bangladesh
