WaterAid | Bangladesh - WaterAid (sitios de interés)

WaterAid | Bangladesh

In Bangladesh only 74% of people have safe water and 39% have sanitation.

WaterAid has worked in Bangladesh since 1986 and, with 16 partner organisations, helps to improve the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people through water, sanitation and hygiene education projects.

The programme provides diverse technological solutions, including tackling saline intrusion into water sources in coastal regions and installing gravity flow schemes in hill areas. WaterAid and its partners also promote community-led total sanitation approaches, where communities build their own low-cost latrines and encourage others to do the same so everyone gains the maximum health and hygiene benefits.

In urban areas, particularly the vast slums of Dhaka where around two million people are without water or adequate sanitation, we set up communal waterpoints and sanitation blocks.

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