Water-Borne Diseases
Water-borne diseases account for this fraction of all deaths in Bangladesh.
What is 1/4?
This percentage of Bangladesh was submerged during the 2007 floods.
What is 60%?
Over 40% of the Bangladeshi population survives on less than this daily income.
What is $1.25?
This UN agency provided saline solutions, essential drugs, and mobile health teams during the 2007 floods.
What is UNICEF?
Bangladesh experiences this type of severe seasonal weather that caused the 2007 floods.
What is monsoon rain?
This disease, along with typhoid and hepatitis, was part of a severe epidemic triggered by the 2007 floods.
What is Diarrhea?
This many people were displaced by the floods in 2007.
What is 9 million?
Many rural districts in Bangladesh have population densities exceeding this number of people per square kilometer.
What is 1000?
This many damaged tube wells were repaired to restore access to clean water
What is 93,000?
The 2007 floods caused widespread displacement in this major river delta region.
What is the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta?
These pathogens spread more rapidly during flood years in Bangladesh.
What are Water-borne diseases?
1 in every 8 of these critical water sources was contaminated by sewage.
What are wells?
Nearly this many people were displaced by the 2007 floods, leading to overcrowded conditions.
What is 14 million?
Millions of these were distributed to reduce the risk of post-flood water-borne infections.
What are water purification tablets?
The combination of high humidity, temperature, and flooding creates ideal conditions for the spread of this.
What is bacteria?
Contamination of drinking water during floods increases the prevalence of diseases spread by this type of water.
What is sewage contaminated water?
Over 100,000 people required this type of facility during the epidemic triggered by the floods.
What is a hospital?
A lack of this essential infrastructure worsens the spread of water-borne diseases during floods.
What is sanitation?
Long-term relief efforts focused on restoring this vital resource to reduce disease risk
What is safe drinking water?
The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta's low elevation makes it highly vulnerable to this type of natural disaster.
What are floods?
This environmental factor, alongside high humidity and temperature, contributed to the 2007 disease outbreak.
What is the low elavtion of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta?
The total number of people who drowned as a result of the 2007 floods.
What is 800?
This socio-economic group suffers the most during floods due to lack of resources.
Who are the poorest groups?
Hundreds of these were drilled as part of long-term flood recovery efforts.
What are new tube wells?
This term describes the condition of 60% of the country being covered by water during the 2007 floods.
What is inundation?