Evaluation of Water Supply and Sanitation Status Related to Climate Change in Satkhira Sadar, Bangladesh
Climate change represents the most significant challenge of the study area and poses risks to water and sanitation services. Continuous climate change will increase the social and economic issues that the poorest currently experience, highlighting and increasing their vulnerabilities because of their reliance on climate-sensitive natural resources and their lack of social protection. The intention of this paper is to explore the relation between lack of portable. water and sanitation system with the effects of climate change. During January 2022 to June 2022 a survey covering 100 household with structured questionnaires in Satkhira Sadar Upazilla of Satkhira district. The study revealed that there were many types of climate change impact. Such as- salinity intrusion into surface water body, water logging. Respondents mention that water that they can easily access from shallow tube-well was not pure and unable to drink. 78% of the shallow tube-well contain saline water or Arsenic. Deep tube-well was away from home. The drinking water crisis is not so much as there is one deep tube-well in every one or two kilometers.63% respondents used kacha toilet, 26% used semi-paka and only 11% people used paka toilets. They used dirty or unsafe water from shallow tube-well water (58%) and pond water (22%) which causes various water borne diseases. Especially children are more at risk of health. Due to lack of drainage system and the impact of climate change water logging occurs most of the time of year. This discussion lays out the wide range of factors that must be considered when developing a climate-resilient sanitation and health strategy. It serves as a foundation for thinking about the wide range of policy, governance, financial, and personnel issues that need to be addressed at both the national and local levels.
Key words: Climate change, Climate resilience, Water supply, Sanitation, Disaster
