Smart Water Solutions to Address Salinity, Drinking Water and Health Issues in Coastal Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Md. Anwarul Abedin ◽  
Bhaswati Ray ◽  
Mohammad Golam Kibria ◽  
Rajib Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Water Solutions ◽  
Coastal Bangladesh ◽  
Smart Water

In pursuit of sustainable water solutions in emerging regions

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura R. Brunson ◽  
Lowell W. Busenitz ◽  
David A. Sabatini ◽  
Paul Spicer
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Water Solutions ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
Cultural Assessment

While lack of access to consistent safe drinking water is estimated to affect nearly 2 billion people worldwide, many of the efforts to solve this crisis have proven to be unsustainable. This paper discusses some of the reasons for these challenges and suggests interdisciplinary practices that could be integrated from the very beginning of a water intervention to achieve long-term success. Of key importance for sustainable water implementation is an enabling environment that incorporates aspects such as funding, potential for market development, and supportive governance. While this enabling environment is acknowledged, the focus of this work is on the integration of three key areas: (i) social and cultural assessment of behavior and preferences; (ii) market-based implementation approaches that draw on this knowledge; and (iii) technology development for these markets.

The effect of drinking water salinity on blood pressure in young adults of coastal Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 248-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Radwanur Rahman Talukder ◽  
Shannon Rutherford ◽  
Dung Phung ◽  
Mohammad Zahirul Islam ◽  
Cordia Chu
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Salinity ◽  
Coastal Bangladesh

scholarly journals War is hazardous for your health: photographs and testimonies about death, wounds, disease and medical care during the Mexican Revolution

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 893-906
Author(s):  
John Mraz
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Contaminated Drinking Water

Revolutionary wars have devastating and far-reaching effects on the health of the populations caught up in them. However, the deaths and injuries produced by weaponry are only part of the story, because diseases resulting from malnutrition and contaminated drinking water account for the majority of medical problems. This essay uses photographs and testimonies of participants to explore health issues during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), as well as incorporating secondary literature on this question. Furthermore, photographic images are not presented as simple (indexical) windows onto the world. Rather, the author attempts to identify the imagemakers and provide explanations that help in imagining the reasons behind the making of the photographs.

scholarly journals Exploring the regulatory challenges of a possible rollout of smart water meters in the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 159-179
Author(s):  
Brenda Espinosa Apráez ◽  
Saskia Lavrijssen
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Big Data ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Smart Water ◽  
Water Meters ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

Big data have become a driver of innovation in multiple sectors, including the management of infrastructures employed for the provision of essential goods and services, such as drinking water. As technology enables new possibilities of action for infrastructure managers, it could be questioned whether the regulations in place still deal adequately with such possibilities or if certain adjustments are necessary, especially considering that infrastructure managers usually operate in highly regulated environments. This study explores the regulatory challenges of introducing smart water meters (SWM) in the Netherlands. In particular, it discusses whether the introduction of SWM will require adjusting the regulations of the sector, to deal with the new possibilities of action enabled by this technology.

scholarly journals Examining the Economics of Affordability Through Water Diaries in Coastal Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia F. Hoque ◽  
Robert Hope
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Sand Filters ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Coastal Bangladesh ◽  
Nationally Representative

Monitoring affordability of drinking water services is constrained by data gaps from traditional approaches that rely on cross-sectional data from infrequent, nationally representative surveys. Estimates of income or expenditure ratios spent on accessing a main source of drinking water are poorly equipped to reflect affordability in rural contexts where poor people often resort to multiple sources of varying costs, quality and distance to cope with unreliable or absent water supplies. Here, we present findings from an 18-week water diary study that documented daily water choices and expenditures of a stratified sample of 120 households in coastal Bangladesh. This intensive, longitudinal monitoring is supported by household surveys, water infrastructure mapping, hydrogeological analysis of salinity, automated rainfall measurements and interviews with diary participants. We identify five water expenditure typologies, ranging from those who always rely on unpaid and often poor-quality sources like shallow tubewells, pond sand filters and rainwater, to those who purchase vended water for drinking and cooking all year-round, spending 3–7% of total household expenditure. These behavioral dynamics are shaped by environmental, infrastructure and cultural factors, with household wealth being a weak indicator of behavior. We conclude that affordability measures should recognize the quality of service available and chosen by users across seasons, rather than being fixated on income or expenditure ratios for a main source. Measuring the latter without considering the former impedes the design of service delivery models appropriate for providing safe and reliable water supplies, at costs that users and society are willing to bear and sustain.

Exploring suitable sites for installing safe drinking water wells in coastal Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratnajit Saha ◽  
Nepal C. Dey ◽  
Sajidur Rahman ◽  
Lakshman Galagedara ◽  
Prosun Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Coastal Bangladesh ◽  
Water Wells

scholarly journals A social-ecological analysis of drinking water risks in coastal Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 679 ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Ferdous Hoque ◽  
Robert Hope ◽  
Sharif Tanjim Arif ◽  
Tanjila Akhter ◽  
Maheen Naz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Ecological Analysis ◽  
Coastal Bangladesh ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Households’ Willingness to Pay for Disaster Resilient Safe Drinking Water Sources in Southwestern Coastal Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Sariful Islam ◽  
Sonia Afrin ◽  
Md. Nasif Ahsan ◽  
Mohammed Ziaul Haider ◽  
Tasnim Murad Mamun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Present Value ◽  
Coastal Bangladesh ◽  
Drinking Water Sources ◽  
The People

Abstract Nonfunctionality of engineered water sources after two catastrophic cyclones—Sidr in November 2007 and Aila in May 2009—created acute scarcity of safe drinking water in coastal Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to estimate households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for disaster resilient water sources in Dacope upazila of Khulna District in southwestern coastal Bangladesh. By applying the double bounded dichotomous contingent valuation method to a dataset of 250 randomly selected households, we found that the mean WTP is BDT 263 and that inaccessibility to functional safe drinking water sources is the most significant determining factor of households’ WTP. Projecting mean WTP for a disaster resilient water source project in the study area, we measured a present value of aggregate WTP over project’s life span worth about BDT 624 (USD 7.37) million, which is about 14.30 times the present value of project’s aggregate establishment and maintenance cost. However, charging the local inhabitants a water tariff at mean WTP would lead to the exclusion of around 50% of the people from getting access to the improved water services or create a free riding problem. Through simulation exercises this study determined that the socially optimal water tariff is BDT 50 per month. This tariff would not only generate revenue of more than five times the project cost but would also create access to disaster resilient improved drinking water sources for almost 99% of the people.

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