A new report from the WHO and Unicef highlights the fact that one in four people lack safely managed drinking water in their homes, with nearly half lacking safely managed sanitation. In Bangladesh, more than 68 million lack safe drinking water, while over 100 million lack sanitation facilities. If we are serious about ending this pandemic, the availability of clean water and sanitation must be addressed. Handwashing stations are a good initiative, but not nearly enough given the scale of the problem, and our population. With more the 60 million people across the nation lacking basic hygiene facilities, it is imperative that we massively increase investment and scale up efforts to solve this issue -- according to experts, least developed countries such as Bangladesh need to increase their rate of progress ten-fold in order to ensure universal access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 02, 2021 20:03 UTC