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Water Quality and Sanitation Status: a Study on Char Land of Bhuapur Upazila Under Tangail District

B. C. Sarker
Department of Environmental Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

A. S. M. Saifullah
Department of Environmental Science and Resource Management, Mawlana Bhashani Science and TechnologyUniversity, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh,

N. A. Mahmud
Department of Environmental Science and Resource Management, Mawlana Bhashani Science and TechnologyUniversity, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh,

M. S. Islam
Department of Environmental ScienceBangladesh Agricultural University Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The study was aimed to review the damage of sanitation facilities; since Char land’s dwellers faces manifold challenges concerning sanitation, hygiene and water during flood. It also explored the possibilities of overcoming the negative impacts of floods on sources of safe drinking water and sanitation. The study result shows that, about 54% of the overall latrines were included ring slab with water seal, pit latrine, bush or hanging toilet of the flood affected people during the flood. Around 19% of the respondents use to do toilet in the open area during flood. Different NGOs e.g. Jamuna Char Development Project (JCDP), Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), CARE and Red Crescent Society of Bangladesh works for rehabilitation of the flood affected people and give early warning on the flood. Depending on location and sanitation conditions, drinking water sources may be contaminated by flood water during flood and many waterborne diseases can spread out like Cholera, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, diseases of the skin, Typhoid etc. meantime. The conducted survey also reports that, drinking water and sanitation condition is not dependable (on the commentary of 64.8% of the responders). Therefore, the flood affected people of Bhuapur are usually underprivileged from appropriate sanitation facility on flood. They somehow conform themselves while a chain of problems strikes hardly during flood.

Keywords: Drinking water, Flood, Char land, Sanitation, NGO

Location: Tangail

Start Date: 00-09-2010

End Date:

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Social status

Objectives:

To review the damage of sanitation facilities; since Char land’s dwellers faces manifold challenges concerning sanitation, hygiene and water during flood.

Methodology:

The study was conducted at Bhuapur upazila under Tangail district. Bhuapur is an Upazila of Tangail District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh and consists total area of 225.02 km². Gabsara is one of the unions of Bhuapur out of 6, which has total household 6183, total area 6771.64 hectares and total population 29438 (male 14141 and female 15297) (Banglapedia, 2008). This study is specially focused on Rulipara and Jongipur villages (Fig. 1). These villages are comparatively highly flood affected area in Gabsara union under Bhuapur upazila. Most of the people of this area are unconscious about health hazardous likely to happen during or after flood. In fact, they are not aware enough regarding this crucial issue unless they might have faced serious problems.The research was carried out on the bases of primary and secondary information. In this research, different methodologies as well as interview with local people, questionnaire, survey, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and Participatory Reflection and Action (PRA) were applied for the collection of data. Data have been collected through interviewing technique through a questionnaire which include all essential questions those are relevant to the study. Both primary and secondary data was used for the study. Primary data was collected from the field level intrinsic study and realistic features are presented. The study population was households having latrines with at least 3 rings and 1 slab. Having water seal was an operational criterion as its presence was not very common in the study area. Considering random sampling, the sample size was 54 households. The survey was conducted during the last week of the flood on September 2010. The collected data was “tabulated” and “coded”. The SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) software and Microsoft office excel were used for analysis of data.

Source of Information: J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 11(2): 209–214, 2013, ISSN 1810-3030

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Achievement/Findings:

Char land people of Bhuapur Upazila are suffering from inadequate water and sanitation problem during and after flood likewise there is scarcity of safe drinking water. More than half of the total flood affected people are seriously vulnerable due to lack of safe drinking water and sanitation facility. Monitoring program to preclude possible problems regarding water and sanitation of the flood affected area is needed. Government and non-government agencies had better step forward for the improvement of rehabilitation system or adaptive capacity, relief donation, pure water supply of living people and elevated latrines to improve the sanitation condition during flood.

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