Water and Sanitation

Water and Sanitation

Since early nineties, BEES has been incorporating integrated software and hardware WatSan activities with its programs with the assistance of NGO Forum for DWSS. Alongside its normal program BEES has successfully performed rehabilitation activities, which mainly include building shelters, ensuring safe water & environmental sanitation, installation of tubewells, repairing & re-sinking of damaged tubewells, dewatering ponds and construction of sanitary latrines with the financial assistance of the World Relief Canada. During late seventies, BEES installed more than 4,000 tubewells under the program intervention areas in collaboration with the Bangladesh Krishi Bank. BEES provides the beneficiaries with credit while a huge number of tubewells and latrines have been installed through these initiatives.

Furthermore, BEES has performed arsenic test for a good number of hand tubewells with its own efforts. BEES has created awareness among the people through conduction of promotional activities and using communication materials on usage of safe water, personal hygiene practice, disposal of solid waste, and dreadfulness of arsenic & arsenic mitigation options.