Baseline study of Arsenic Mitigation Project 2016

The Arsenic Mitigation Project was implemented in Meherpur and Sunamganj districts with an aim to make change in the systems to get services in favour of the poor and disadvantaged groups and create sustainable access to safe water, improve sanitation and hygiene behavior. The baseline study of the project finds majority of the households in the project upazilas (around 43 percent) faced problem while fetching water that included ‘scuffles with others’ (35 percent), ‘too far from home’ (34 percent) and ‘owner restriction’ (25 percent). Findings show that over 40 percent of the households reported that they shared their water sources with 1-5 households. Besides, 71 percent of the households in two upazilas had access to unimproved latrine .