Access to potable water for coastal people

Our targeted area Banisanta union, Dacope upazila, Khulna is very near to the Bay of Bengal. The whole village is surrounded by river. The water of this river is very salty. Most of the houses have a pond but during high tide this salty water enters into these ponds. So villagers cannot use this water for house hold purpose. There is also scarcity of safe drinking water. Most of the local community reserve rain water for drinking and other house hold works but it is not enough for whole year. In dry season people faces many problem to collect the fresh water. They have to collect water from a far distance. And transportation of this water also create a challenge for them some of them don’t have jar for carrying and store water.

For solving this problem Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) take an initiative to distribute water jar to the villagers. We distribute 200 water jars on the basis of their need to the villagers to solve their problem. This jar can contain 20 liters of water. But this is not enough for a families drinking water need. We want to distribute more water jar to the villagers. 

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;

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/support-drinking-water-to-the-poor-coastal-people?show=recurring

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;

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/support-drinking-water-to-the-poor-coastal-people?show=recurring

Links:

• Community based water service provider business activity