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reservoirs: Water levels drop nationwide, southern region hit hardest

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reservoirs: Water levels drop nationwide, southern region hit hardest

The monitoring data from 150 main reservoirs revealed a total live storage of 39.765 billion cubic meters (BCM), which constitutes just 22 per cent of the total live storage capacity of these reservoirs, according to official data. Last week, the total capacity was 23 per cent of the storage capacity of these reservoirs. As the … Read more

Almost Half Of Drinking Water In Bangladesh Contains Cancer Causing Arsenic

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Almost Half Of Drinking Water In Bangladesh Contains Cancer Causing Arsenic

Almost 50 per cent of Bangladesh’s groundwater contains arsenic in concentrations that are dangerously harmful for human use, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE. The scientists involved in the study analysed water samples from wells across Bangladesh and found that all of them breached the safe limit set by the … Read more