By Saiful Hasan | Project contributor
Out of 165 million of people of Bangladesh, 68 million people approximately 41% of total population facing the problem of lack access to a reliable, safely managed source of water. In the area of the Sundarbans coastal region 73% people are deprived of safe drinking water. It is a massive crisis in the coastal region of Bangladesh due to increasing amount of salinity both ground and surface water.
In this sense, BEDS took initiative at the year of 2015 through establishing solar based pond sand and filter system as well as Reverse Osmosis (RO) system with Water ATM and installing water wells at Uttar-Banishanta Banojibi campus. In this day, this facility covers 9000 villagers of 11 village of 6 union of Dacope Upazilla. People of the village fetch water at a cost of 0.09 USD for 20 litters water. This amount of money used for the maintenance of the water plant. Some villagers do their water selling business by this water plant. They buy 0.09 USD per 20 litters from us and sell 0.18 USD per 20 litters to other area. And by doing this business they are now socio-economically healthy. They run their family through this business.
One of the water sellers expressed her feelings; “We don’t have safe drinking water option before. BEDS give us this opportunity. I and my husband collect water from here for our family and our water selling business. We are success to turn over our family condition. My daughter is being educated. We are now a happy family’’.
We would like to thank all our donors for their amazing and continuous support for the coastal deprived people. We are requesting all our donors to start monthly recurring donation by clicking the following link;
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