Talk:Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh

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Sanitation Mid‑importance

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Section sizes

Section size for Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh (53 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,847	4,847
Water resources	122	6,954
Surface water	2,553	2,553
Groundwater	4,279	4,279
Water use	1,921	2,893
Types of water sources	972	972
Access	835	9,159
Access to drinking water	3,013	3,013
Access to sanitation	886	886
Data from 2010 and earlier	3,073	3,073
Access to water at schools	1,352	1,352
Arsenic contamination of groundwater	5,285	15,022
People affected and health issues	4,099	4,099
Government responses	3,760	5,638
Household-level arsenic filters	1,878	1,878
Service quality	425	5,673
Drinking water quality	2,438	2,438
Sharing waterpoints	558	558
Continuity of supply	1,219	1,219
Piped water in rural areas	466	466
Wastewater treatment	567	567
History	4,588	4,588
Responsibility for water supply and sanitation	2,161	12,559
Policy and regulation	1,371	1,371
National Water Policy and related policies	4,146	4,146
Service provision	25	910
Water Supply and Sewerage Authorities	885	885
Municipalities	694	1,558
Private sector and NGOs	864	864
Schools	1,697	1,697
Other functions	716	716
Efficiency of utilities	1,882	1,882
Financial aspects	23	7,745
Tariffs and cost recovery	1,656	1,656
Investment and financing	4,513	4,513
Household expenditure for water	1,553	1,553
Innovative approaches	1,625	10,986
Community-led total sanitation	2,089	2,089
New management models for piped rural water supply	770	3,058
Rural Development Academy multipurpose schemes	1,304	1,304
Bangladesh Water Supply Program Project	984	984
Desalination and private water service providers	1,844	1,844
Professional water service providers for schools	2,370	2,370
External co-operation	938	7,676
Asian Development Bank (ADB)	1,342	1,342
Denmark	790	790
World Bank	18	4,606
Rural areas	2,221	2,221
Urban areas	2,367	2,367
See also	46	46
References	33	2,504
Sources	2,471	2,471
External links	414	414
Total	92,948	92,948

Remaining questions

I found a lot of information in the cited documents. However, most of the figures are not up to date and I was not able to find answers to all my questions. Please feel free to edit the article. The following questions seem to me the most important issues.

Are there current data (it would be best to have data at the national level) on?:

Service quality
Total water production and consumption
NRW and staff per 1,000 connections
Water tariffs
Financing and cost recovery
Investment by the national/municipal government, private investment

The government declared its objective to reach total sanitation by 2010 through a CLTS campaign. Are there any updated coverage data to indicate wether this objective is likely to be achieved? Are there any documents about the campaign?
Was there any progress concerning the implementation of the NWMP?

For example the creation of a single regulatory agency or major private sector participation?

Was there any progress concerning wastewater treatment?
More information concerning the activities of international aid agencies is also welcome.

Is there more information of the World Bank activities under the partnership framework for water and sanitation in Dhaka?

I would like to access the WARPO National Water Resources Database (NWRD) on http://www.warpo.gov.bd/NWRD/NWRD.htm. It would probably answer most of my questions. Does anybody have access or can tell me how to get access?

If you have answers or sources of information or you think that there are more issues to be improved, please feel free to work on the article on your own, post your suggestions on this discussion page or on my user discussion page. Thanks a lot for your interest and help! Kerres (Talk) 14:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great job! Just a few quick comments:

Much of the article deals with water resources management, not water supply and sanitation. Given the importance of water resources management in Bangladesh, this is absolutely justified, but it leads to a mismatch between title and content. Maybe at one stage an article "Water resources management in Bangladesh" should be written and the respective parts of the current article could be moved there.
The article does not say who is in charge of policy for sanitation. This may not be clearly defined, as in many other countries. In any case, it would be good if the article elaborated on that issue.

Actually, I could not find any information on who is responsible for sanitation policy. The NWMP explicitly defines the tasks of the relevant sector institutions, but sanitation is only mentioned when the construction of facilities is concerned. Regarding service provision, sanitation is carried out by the same institution like water supply.--Kerres (Talk) 10:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the infobox it may be useful to use the overall national investment figure per capita instead of listing only the figure for Dhaka.--Mschiffler (talk) 01:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for the useful suggestions!--Kerres (Talk) 11:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History

The history section is currently limited to a history of national-level institutions and plans. It would be useful to broaden the section to deal with the various challenges that arose over time related to water supply and sanitation (e.g. the arsenic crisis, floods, lack of financial sustainability) and the different approaches that have been developed and tested to respond to the challenges (e.g. proposed increasing use of surface water, multiple use of water, Flood Action Plan), as well as criticism of these approaches.--Mschiffler (talk) 11:11, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]