Detail Bangladesh Slums Demand Access to Clean Water   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: Choices the Human Development Magazine/UNDP (Mar. 2003), page 10. Topik: Bangladesh; Demand Access to Clean Water; Taka; Dushtha Shasthya Kendra-local NGO Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: CC21 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel In order to get water, Bangladesh residents have to pay one Taka for a 20-litre bucket of clean water. But this is considered a progress. Five years ago, the only sources of water for the slum's 500 families were wells and an intermittent supply from an illegally connected tap to the city's water utility. For drinking water, women and children had to wait in line for up to two hours to collect a pitcher or a bucket of water from a local market or nearby houses (they often had to bribe guards or pay exorbitant prices. Today, families use water from a dug well behind their shack, for bathing and washig, but for drinking and cooking, they get water from the slum's "water point" Change came to shantytown when a group of families got together and decided to ask a local non-goverment organization (NGO) for assistance in getting a proper and legal water connection. actually the Dhaka water agency is only allowed to provide water for the landowners and residents. But since the the people living in the slums are willing and able to pay, the water authority is no longer reluctant to give them a water connection. "Slum dwellers are willing and able to pay for services, they are not asking for charity, "says Masudul Quader, (Dushtha Shasthya Kendra-local NGO) Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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