Bangladesh is a country dependent on water ... still dispensing toxic wastewater from the textile dyeing process - into rivers. But pressure from buyers is having a positive impact in the garment ...

Some 80 per cent of Bangladesh's 235 rivers are drying up due to the piling up of huge amounts of silt from upstream, waste dumping, construction of unplanned embankments and withdrawal of water ...

The Kumlai river, a vital 20-kilometre tributary of the Teesta flowing through Nilphamari's Dimla upazila, is on the brink of disappearing. A dam constructed by the Bangladesh Water Development ...