Natural disasters hamper target
Achieving target of ensuring drinking water and sanitation would not be possible by 2013 due to natural disasters in the country, said a study.
To achieve the target, the government needs to ensure increase yearly coverage of access to sanitation rate from 0.75 percent to 22.10 percent. Now around 81.04 percent households have access to sanitation, it said.
The study titled “Mainstreaming of Disaster Risk Reduction into Government's Schemes on Water and Sanitation: Gap Analysis and Way Forward” suggested adoption of geo-hazard specific risk reduction strategies.
AKM Musha, country director of Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh, presented the findings at a workshop in the capital yesterday. National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiative (NARRI) conducted the research in 13 districts.
With the Department of Public Health Engineering Chief Engineer Mohammad Nuruzzaman in the chair, Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzque, and European Union representative Oliver Brouant also spoke.
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