Water pollution in Bangladesh and its impact on public health

Abstract

Bangladesh – one of the most densely populated countries of the world— has plentiful water sources, but these sources are being polluted continuously. Both surface water and groundwater sources are contaminated with different contaminants like toxic trace metals, coliforms as well as other organic and inorganic pollutants. As most of the population uses these water sources, especially groundwater sources which contain an elevated amount of arsenic throughout the country; health risk regarding consuming water is very high. Death due to water-borne diseases is widespread in Bangladesh, particularly among children. Anthropogenic sources such as untreated industrial effluents, improper disposal of domestic waste, agricultural runoffs are the main contributors regarding water pollution. A total water pollution status of this country, as well as the sources of this severe condition, is crucial to evaluate public health risk. For this purpose, we reviewed hundreds of well recognized international and national journals, conference proceedings and other related documents to draw a complete picture of recent water pollution status and its impact on public health; also the sources of water pollution are identified.

Multi-hazard Groundwater Risks to Water Supply from Shallow Depths: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh

“…For example, Bangladesh's progress in providing nearly universal access to technologically "improved" drinkingwater supply according to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can mostly be credited to switching from highly-polluted surface water sources to groundwater sources (Hasan et al 2019). The MDGs, however, did not monitor critical dimensions of safe drinking water such as water quality, convenience, and continuity of service (World Bank 2018).…”

The role of chemical exposures in reducing the effectiveness of water–sanitation–hygiene interventions in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Zimbabwe

“…A. Z. Chowdhury, Banik, et al, 2012;Dasgupta et al, 2005;Dasgupta, Meisner, & Huq, 2007;Hasan et al, 2019;Miah et al, 2014;Shammi et al, 2020;Sumon et al, 2018;Sumon et al, 2016). Consequently, acute effects of pesticide exposure of famers have been widely documented (Akter et al, 2018;Dasgupta et al, 2005Dasgupta et al, , 2007Miah et al, 2014;Sumon et al, 2016).…”

Local Wisdom Based Water Resources Conservation for Environmental Sustainability

“…The presence of waste have negative effect on water quality, so that monitoring of water quality must be carried out sustainably by using various pollution parameters (Kapelewska et al, 2019). The water that contaminated like toxic metals, coliforms as well as other organic and inorganic pollutants can cause a risk to human health conditions and can even cause death (Hasan et al, 2019;Noreen et al, 2019).…”