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  56 northern villages flooded as Gazaldoba barrage opened

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:36am on June 27, 2020

  At least 56 villages in 12 upazilas of four northern districts went under water after the Teesta and Dharla rivers swelled by about a quarter...

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  HC stays DWASA step to raise water tariff

  M Moneruzzaman  | Updated at 12:31am on June 23, 2020

  The High Court on Monday stayed a Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority notice about increasing water price until August 10. Earlier, DWASA issued a...

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  Fresh areas go under water as rivers continue to swell

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:59am on June 07, 2020

  Fresh areas went under water in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat and Kurigram as most of the country’s major rivers continued to swell until Saturday amid heavy rains...

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  Social distancing on launches still ignored

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:18am on June 07, 2020

  Directives for maintaining social distancing on passengers launches continued to be ignored on Saturday even after a week of resuming the water transport service. Most...

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  Acute water crisis grips Amphan-hit coastal areas

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:31am on May 30, 2020

  Super cyclone Amphan has either damaged or rendered unusable almost all sources of safe drinking water in the country’s most water-stressed coastal areas, leaving thousands...

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  Failure to pay rent leads to power, water supply cut

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:50pm on May 02, 2020

  A house owner cut off power and water supplies to a women mess in the Capital’s Shankar area as its boarders allegedly could not pay...

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  Rohingyas in Bangladesh camps complain of water crisis

  Muktadir Rashid | Updated at 01:03am on April 25, 2020

  Rohingyas are suffering from drinking water crisis in camps at Ukhia and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar amid spread of the novel coronavirus, Rohingya community leaders...

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  77pc capacity unutilised

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:38am on April 04, 2020

  About 70 per cent production capacity of the newly inaugurated Padma Treatment Plant remains unused when Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority. The plants is...

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  Water crisis multiplies plights of coastal people

  Manzur H Maswood, back from Khulna | Updated at 11:26pm on March 31, 2020

  After her marriage in 2000, Minoti Sarkar moved to Chalna, Dacope, to live with her husband, a goldsmith by profession. The couple has now two...

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  Climate change threatens water safety in Bangladesh

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:14am on March 22, 2020

  Climate change is threatening water safety in Bangladesh as saline water continues to cover more costal southern districts of the country, according to experts. Amid...