The new water and sanitation development goal must include measurable targets, to improve the lives of those without water or access to a safe toilet The report card is in on the UN’s first set of global
Reforming fossil fuel subsidies could free up enough funds to finance universal access to water, sanitation, and electricity in many countries, as well as helping to cut global greenhouse-gas emissions.
Thousands of the distressed women living in remote char areas on the Brahmaputra basin have achieved laudable success in the health, hygiene, sanitation and safe drinking water sectors. The exceptional
Lack of a coordinated policy towards addressing rapid urbanisation has put the urban environment in peril, according to a government report released last week. The Economic Survey for the fiscal year
The underlying goal of this book is to facilitate and stimulate sharing of information on these phenomena and to provide an interdisciplinary framework for bringing about improved environmental conditions
Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness
RAJBIRAJ: Despite being declared open-defecation free zones, around dozen VDCs in Saptari are performing very poorly in terms of use of toilets. The fact came to light during a monitoring carried out
Islamabad - Pakistan is one of the 95 countries that have met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for sanitation aimed at halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to
RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a seminar in Rajshahi said adverse impact of climate change has been posing a serious threat to the overall public health especially relating to water and sanitation in the region
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has signed a US$ 6.35 million (about Tk 49.42 crore) grant agreement with Unicef Bangladesh to improve access to affordable and hygienic sanitation
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