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Bangladesh Water Supply Program Project The World Bank is contributing a US$40 million loan to the Bangladesh Water Supply Program Project, designed to support Bangladesh in achieving the MDGs in water supply and sanitation by 2015 through safe water free from arsenic and pathogens in small towns and rural areas. Private-sector participation in ...
Department of Environment (পরিবেশ অধিদপ্তর) is a government department responsible for the protection of the environment in Bangladesh and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. [1] [2] The department is headed by a director general. [3] It is under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. [4]
Sedimentation in reservoirs effects the turbidity of the reservoir, and erosion patterns along the river. It also presents a cost to the government who has to dredge the rivers of its sediments. In Bangladesh, the government has to remove 0.8 million cubic meters of maintenance dredging and 2 million cubic meters of capital dredging per year.
The Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services was established on 16 May 2002 as a public trust. Following the flooding in 1987 and 1988 the government of Bangladesh felt the need for a detailed plan to prevent flooding and body to implement it.
Government of Bangladesh: Headquarters: Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka [1] Annual budget
Another major threat deriving from this factor is water salinity which directly affects rice production especially in the coastal part of Bangladesh. The same report state that, the country will lose 12-16% of its land if the sea level rises by 1 meter. These challenges lead to food scarcity and insecurity for the huge populace of the country.
Bangladesh Standard Codes for Information Interchange (BDS 1934:2018): To ensure compatibility and consistency in data exchange across various computer systems and applications within the country, there is a need for a national standard for ASCII-based Bengali character and symbol coding. The Bangladesh Computer Council has addressed this need ...
A salinometer. A salinometer is a device designed to measure the salinity, or dissolved salt content, of a solution.. Since the salinity affects both the electrical conductivity and the specific gravity of a solution, a salinometer often consist of an ec meter or hydrometer and some means of converting those readings to a salinity reading.