Talk:Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh

Remaining questions

I found a lot of information in the cited documents. However, most of the figures are not up to date and I was not able to find answers to all my questions. Please feel free to edit the article. The following questions seem to me the most important issues.

• Are there current data (it would be best to have data at the national level) on?:

• Service quality
• Total water production and consumption
• NRW and staff per 1,000 connections
• Water tariffs
• Financing and cost recovery
• Investment by the national/municipal government, private investment

• The government declared its objective to reach total sanitation by 2010 through a CLTS campaign. Are there any updated coverage data to indicate wether this objective is likely to be achieved? Are there any documents about the campaign?
• Was there any progress concerning the implementation of the NWMP?

• For example the creation of a single regulatory agency or major private sector participation?

• Was there any progress concerning wastewater treatment?
• More information concerning the activities of international aid agencies is also welcome.

• Is there more information of the World Bank activities under the partnership framework for water and sanitation in Dhaka?

• I would like to access the WARPO National Water Resources Database (NWRD) on http://www.warpo.gov.bd/NWRD/NWRD.htm. It would probably answer most of my questions. Does anybody have access or can tell me how to get access?

If you have answers or sources of information or you think that there are more issues to be improved, please feel free to work on the article on your own, post your suggestions on this discussion page or on my user discussion page. Thanks a lot for your interest and help! Kerres (Talk) 14:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Great job! Just a few quick comments:

• Much of the article deals with water resources management, not water supply and sanitation. Given the importance of water resources management in Bangladesh, this is absolutely justified, but it leads to a mismatch between title and content. Maybe at one stage an article "Water resources management in Bangladesh" should be written and the respective parts of the current article could be moved there.
• The article does not say who is in charge of policy for sanitation. This may not be clearly defined, as in many other countries. In any case, it would be good if the article elaborated on that issue.

• Actually, I could not find any information on who is responsible for sanitation policy. The NWMP explicitly defines the tasks of the relevant sector institutions, but sanitation is only mentioned when the construction of facilities is concerned. Regarding service provision, sanitation is carried out by the same institution like water supply.--Kerres (Talk) 10:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

• In the infobox it may be useful to use the overall national investment figure per capita instead of listing only the figure for Dhaka.--Mschiffler (talk) 01:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

• Done. Thanks for the useful suggestions!--Kerres (Talk) 11:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

History

The history section is currently limited to a history of national-level institutions and plans. It would be useful to broaden the section to deal with the various challenges that arose over time related to water supply and sanitation (e.g. the arsenic crisis, floods, lack of financial sustainability) and the different approaches that have been developed and tested to respond to the challenges (e.g. proposed increasing use of surface water, multiple use of water, Flood Action Plan), as well as criticism of these approaches.--Mschiffler (talk) 11:11, 8 April 2009 (UTC)