Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
Almost 250 million people around the world are affected by climate related disasters in a typical year. New research for this report projects that, by 2015, this number could grow by 50 per cent to an average of more than 375 million people
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in addition to its earlier commitments, is considering more funds for the construction of the Padma Bridge.
Boatmen on the Karnaphuli River yesterday formed a boat-chain with a call to save the river from pollution and illegal encroachment. Environmentalists at a rally on a boat during the programme at 11:30am urged the government to improve navigability of the river through capital dredging on which the premier seaport, the lifeline of the country, is located.
Experts here have said that jute has been regaining its past glory very fast now following alarming and huge adverse effects of synthetic fibres on the environment and ecology in recent decades everywhere in the world.
Experts at a consultation yesterday suggested the government allocate at least six percent of gross national product (GNP) for education sector to achieve the education for all (EFA) target by 2015. They also called on the government to allocate six percent of the total education budget for adult literacy.
Promoting environmentally sustainable transport (EST) is a must to mitigate adverse environmental and health impact in the city, said the speakers at a national workshop and policy dialogue yesterday. The EST includes non-motorised vehicles, bicycles, pedestrianisation schemes and vehicles with less emission of pollutants, they added.
At least 200 people were attacked with diarrhoea, pneumonia, jaundice and other water-borne diseases in nine upazilas in last three days. The diseases have broken out rapidly due to scorching heat in last few days, Civil Surgeon's Office sources said. Children and elderly people are the worst sufferers, they said.
The number of diarrhoea patients is increasing day by day. Every day about 1000 people come to the ICDDR,B . The hospital cannot accommodate such a huge number of patients. The problem will persist unless arrangements are made to supply pure drinking water to the city dwellers. That appears to be a very difficult job now. The authorities concerned should look into the matter.
THE extent of pollution seeping into our rivers is mind-boggling and has been that way for years together. If there ever was any hope that remedial measures would be taken to deal with the problem, it now seems that hope was belied. That much becomes clear through a front-page report in this newspaper yesterday.
Wasa water has become a source of quick bucks for some dishonest government employees in the wake of unbearable water crisis in the capital, allege a number of city dwellers. They allege a clique of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) officials are exacting more money than the official rates for water supply in lorries without money receipts.