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INVESTIGATION OF SUPPLIED WATER QUALITY AND SANITATION STATUS OF TANGAIL MUNICIPALITY, BANGLADESH (Pages : 14 - 18)

Water is essential for living organisms for their survival. Access of adequate and safe water is a basic need of human beings. Inadequacy and unsafe water supply may cause various health problems. Tangail is one of the developing municipality of Bangladesh suffering shortage of safe water supply. Only 26% household of the municipality has an access to supply water. The coverage still remains very low because of limited progress in water supply activities in the municipality. As a result sanitation status is affected negatively. Supplied water of the municipality seems to be quite good at least in terms of physicochemical water quality parameters. Most of the physicochemical water quality parameters were within the Bangladesh drinking water quality standards. The survey showed that sanitation facilities are quite good. 71% of the respondents use pit latrines, 22% use septic tank latrine and only 7% use hanging latrine. People of the study area are not conscious enough for the disposal of household sewage and sludge. 84% of the respondents dispose their household sewage and sludge into municipal drainage system that cause cross-contamination, 3% dump it on the open field and only 13% buried the domestic wastes.Download