WWD 2001 Event
Bangladesh - The Daily Star coverage
The Daily Star, Bangladesh had good coverage about WWD. It published various News articles and features on 22 March and news reports on 23 March, available at their web archive:
22 March
World Water Day today
The World Water Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere in the globe today. This year's theme of the World Water Day is Water and Health.. . .
http://www.dailystarnews.com/200103/22/n1032206.htm#BODY3
Water crisis: Integrated management of resources suggested
Speakers at a seminar here yesterday said Bangladesh needs to take up an effective integrated water resources management programme to cope with water crisis.. . .
http://www.dailystarnews.com/200103/22/n1032210.htm#BODY2
Features:
- Focus: Message from the Regional Director
The theme of ‘Water for Health’ is well-chosen for this year's World Water Day. Water is essential for life, and safe water is essential for health.. . .
http://www.dailystarnews.com/200103/22/n1032209.htm#BODY1 - Focus: Water-borne diseases and environmental health situation
Everyone knows that water sustains life. But not everyone knows that water can also endanger life. Ingestion of or exposure to contaminated water causes several diseases.. . .
http://www.dailystarnews.com/200103/22/n1032209.htm#BODY2 - Focus: Water and Health
The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.. . .
http://www.dailystarnews.com/200103/22/n1032209.htm#BODY3 - Focus: Contamination of drinking-water by arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency
In Bangladesh, arsenic contamination of water in tubewells was confirmed in 1993 in the Nawabganj district.. . .
http://www.dailystarnews.com/200103/22/n1032209.htm#BODY4
23 March
Call to ensure safe water to combat arsenic poisoning
Int'l seminar on ‘water for people, water for health’ ends
http://www.dailystarnews.com/200103/23/n1032310.htm#BODY1
Toxic water behind skin diseases, cancer
World Water Day seminar in city told
http://www.dailystarnews.com/200103/23/n1032310.htm#BODY4