Md. Khalid Hasan, Abrar Shahriar, Kudrat Ullah Jim
Bangladesh - one of the most densely populated countries of the world- has plentiful water sources, but these sources are being polluted continuously. Both surface water and groundwater sources are contaminated with different contaminants like toxic trace metals, coliforms as well as other organic a...
Robert Dreibelbis, Peter J. Winch, Elli Leontsini, Kristyna R. S. Hulland et al.
BACKGROUND: Promotion and provision of low-cost technologies that enable improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices are seen as viable solutions for reducing high rates of morbidity and mortality due to enteric illnesses in low-income countries. A number of theoretical models, explanat...
Tanveer Saeed, Sidratul Muntaha, Rashid Mamunur, Guangzhi Sun et al.
This paper reports pollutant removal performances from mixed industrial wastewater employing subsurface flow constructed wetland systems in Bangladesh. Two parallel hybrid wetland trains were established; each train included a vertical flow (VF) followed by a horizontal flow (HF) wetland. One hybrid...
Yingmu Wang, Ziyuan Lin, Yue Wang, Wei Huang et al.
Phosphate (PO43--P) and nitrate (NO3--N) in the effluent of wastewater treatment plants are the predominant sources of eutrophication. In this study, a bench-scale electrochemically assisted vertical flow constructed wetland (E-VFCW) was developed, which exhibited favorable PO43--P (89.7-99.4%), NO3...
M. M. Islam, Frederick N.-F. Chou, M. R. Kabir, Chao‐Hsien Liaw
Muhammad Yousuf Jat Baloch, Wenjing Zhang, Tahira Sultana, Muhammad Akram et al.
Saline-alkali soil has become significant problem for global agriculture and food security as these soils have poor physicochemical conditions and reduce crop production by causing a wide range of physiological and biochemical changes in plants. More than 800 million hectares (Mha) of land throughou...
Christian Zurbrügg, Silke Drescher, Isabelle Rytz, A.H.Md. Maqsood Sinha et al.
Ayşe Ercümen, Abu Mohd Naser, Leanne Unicomb, Benjamin F. Arnold et al.
BACKGROUND: Shallow tubewells are the primary drinking water source for most rural Bangladeshis. Fecal contamination has been detected in tubewells, at low concentrations at the source and at higher levels at the point of use. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess whether improving th...
Bilqis Amin Hoque, Kelly Hallman, Jason Levy, Howarth E. Bouis et al.
Access to safe drinking water has been an important national goal in Bangladesh and other developing countries. While Bangladesh has almost achieved accepted bacteriological drinking water standards for water supply, high rates of diarrheal disease morbidity indicate that pathogen transmission conti...
Molla Rahman Shaibur, Humaira Husain, Samsul Huda Arpon
Ziala Village of Satkhira District in Bangladesh is well known for cow dung management and biogas production. Biogas plants produce huge quantities of organic residues and biogas. Cow dung is widely used in the plant as a part of waste management and biogas production. The residues are used as organ...
Mahesh K. Gathala, Alison M. Laing, Thakur P. Tiwari, Jagadish Timsina et al.
Traditional cropping practices in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, South Asia, are resource intensive, requiring large inputs of water, energy and human labor. They are also inefficient, with relatively low productivity for the inputs used although the climate, soil and water resources of the region ind...
Jill Luoto, Nusrat Najnin, Minhaj Mahmud, Jeff Albert et al.
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that household point-of-use (POU) water treatment products can reduce the enormous burden of water-borne illness. Nevertheless, adoption among the global poor is very low, and little evidence exists on why. METHODS: We gave 600 households in poor communities in Dhaka, B...
Alexandria B. Boehm, Dan Wang, Ayşe Ercümen, Meghan Shea et al.
We evaluated whether provision and promotion of improved sanitation hardware (toilets and child feces management tools) reduced rotavirus and human fecal contamination of drinking water, child hands, and soil among rural Bangladeshi compounds enrolled in a cluster-randomized trial. We also measured ...
Md. Sazzadul Haque, Nazmun Nahar, Sayed Md. Sayem
In the industrial sector of Bangladesh there is a lack of standardized mechanism to account for water incorporating both efficiency and sustainability. With the growing number of textile industries that rely heavily on groundwater, there is a desperate need for efficient water management at the proc...
Md. Amir Hossain, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Matthew Murrill, Bhaskar Das et al.
A direct water intake study was conducted for one year, involving 423 individuals from arsenic (As) affected villages of West-Bengal, India. Average direct water intake per person was found to be 3.12±1.17 L/day and 78.07±47.08 mL/kg/day (±SD). Average direct water intakes for adult males, adult fem...