Water crisis

Technicians try to fix a groundwater pump in Gazipur after a drop in water flow. Groundwater is depleting at higher rates in some locations within the greater Dhaka city, Gazipur and the High Barind Tract areas. PHOTO: NOOR-A-ALAM

Understanding the nuances of groundwater depletion

There is no question that the rate of groundwater depletion in Bangladesh is very high. But scientists now say this excessive abstraction may have inadvertently created space in some areas for...

Bangladesh

Zafrullah Chy was forerunner in struggle against water aggression: Farakka Committee

Thoughts

The role of local govts in ensuring sustainable water in our cities

Bangladesh

Dhaka gets drier as water crisis rears head amid heatwave

About 300 Tripuri and 15 Garo families, who live in the hilly areas of Sitakunda in Chattogram, face a severe water crisis every summer and are forced to collect water from mountain springs and mud pits. The photo was taken from the Sonaichhari Tripuri village of Sitakunda on Tuesday. Photo: Mohammed Minhaj Uddin.

Environment

Sitakunda tribals' unending struggle for water

South Asia

Pakistan in ‘critically water insecure’ category: UN report

Bangladesh

Human habits to blame for wasting copious amount of water: Experts

Panorama

Confronting the global water crisis

Health

Patients suffer from safe water crisis at coastal hospitals

FILE PHOTO: A man stands on the dried-up artificial Broc lake in Le Broc near Nice as the Alpes-Maritimes department faces a severe drought, France, October 28, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Europe