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The water we want - Salinity cripples life

The water we want - Salinity cripples life

Organization information

Management and Resources Development Initiative

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Summary

Bangladesh is one of the worst sufferers of global climate change and environmental degradation. Scarcity of safe water is a severe crisis for people living in the Sundarbans, world's largest mangrove forest. This has become a question of life and death of the villagers where all sources of surface and ground water have fast growing trend of increased salinity. "The water we want" fund will install small desalination plants to supply safe water to the suffering families to save their lives.

Project locations

Bangladesh

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