Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found …. Yet, no national-scale, multi-hazard groundwater risk maps currently exist enabling water resource managers and policy … makers to identify areas that are vulnerable to public health. This paper develops, for the first time, groundwater risk maps …

Groundwater has been declining in Bangladesh since introduction of deep tube wells (DTWs) and shallow tube wells (STWs …) in late 1970s. Seasonal variation of groundwater has been shifted upto 4 meters during last 33 years. During Boro seasons … groundwater table dropped drastically than other seasons. This study hypothesized that groundwater extraction is much higher than …

Water is regarded as indefeasible necessity of human civilization. In the South Asia region, the groundwater resource … as disproportionate availability of surface water supply, the groundwater resource is veered into vital source to … undergird heavy demand of water supply for livelihoods, industrial and agricultural purposes. Considering these, the groundwater …

groundwater salinity. However, data scarcity has prevented systematic analysis for poor countries. This paper assesses the impact … of groundwater salinity on road maintenance expenditures in the coastal region of Bangladesh. The assessment draws on new … groundwater salinity, municipal income, and road network length, large and significant effects are found for salinity. The …

groundwater resources. Indiscriminate installation of deep and shallow tubewells to lift groundwater for irrigated agriculture is … largely fail to curb the unsustainable withdrawal of groundwater. The result is significant depletion of the water table …. Drawing on interviews with responsible government officials, scholars, and groundwater irrigators, this paper examines the …