Water and Sanitation

BEES conducted safe
drinking water and
small scale irrigation
activities in 1979-1982
at 10 upazilas of Bogra
district for installing
4600 HTWs with the
assistance of
Bangladesh Krishi
Bank.

BEES conducted 100% sanitation
Program in 2005-2007 in 3 upazilas of
Gaibandha district and installed 11672
hygienic latrines & 628 HTWs with the
help of GOB-WB through Social
Development Foundation (SDF)

BEES is conducting Water & Sanitation
activities from 2004 in 6 upazilas of
Faridpur, Madaripur & Gopalganj district
for installing 384 HTWs and 1273 Pit
Latrines in National Nutrition Program
(NNP) intervention areas with the
support of GOB-WB through NNP.

Through its WatSan
activities, after the
devastating cyclone in
1991in coastal belts
BEES successfully
performed rehabilitation
activities, which mainly
included building shelter
and ensuring safe water
and environmental
sanitation with the
financial assistance of the
World Relief Canada.

Since early nineties,
BEES has been
incorporating its
exclusive WatSan
activities with the
assistance of NGO
Forum

BEES has been
conducting the Water
and Sanitation services
through 4 Village Sanitation Centres

BEES conducted rural sanitation
activities in 1996-2007 at 83 upazilas
of 28 districts and established 9400
sanitary latrines with the help of NGO
Forum & DPHE

BEES provides the beneficiaries with
credit for tubewell installation and
setting up hygienic latrines

After receiving small support from
NGO Forum for the time being, now
the water and sanitation hardware
program is being sustained through
income generating activities under
Microfinance Program in 29 districts.

BEES purchased enough
arsenic test kits to identify the
arsenic contaminated tube
wells in the intervention areas.

BEES has tested the water of
hand-tubewells in the
intervention areas with its own
efforts, and the tubewells that
were found arsenic
contaminated were marked by
red color while the arsenic free
tubewells were marked by
green color.

Promotional activities such as
development of BCC materials,
courtyard meetings, rally along
with miking, film show, folk song,
seminar, workshop, doorstep
visits are being taken place
regularly to strengthen the
program implementation

To aware and motivate the
people, BEES has been using
communication materials such as
flip charts, stickers, posters,
flyers etc

It has published special issue of
its Bangla Newsletter "Mathchitra’
on water and sanitation.