By the late 1990s, 97 percent of the rural population in Bangladesh had access to an improved water supply. However, the water in many places was contaminated by arsenic causing major risks to health. The government and NGOs have responded by installing alternative water supplies but these frequently break down.
Published on: 01/09/2008
The Bangladeshi government carried out a survey in 2005 to find out how effective the alternative water supplies had been and what could be done to improve them.
The survey found that a water supply was much more likely to work in places where the community had paid more than 2,000 taka (US$29) towards its installation.
Source: id21, 05 June 2008
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