Impacts of salinity intrusion in community health: a review of experiences on drinking water sodium from coastal areas of Bangladesh

M Shammi, MM Rahman, SE Bondad, M Bodrud-Doza - Healthcare, 2019 - mdpi.com
Increasing salt intake has substantial negative impacts on human health and well-being.
This article focused on the construction of Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) …

Global patterns of water‐driven human migration

L Xu, JS Famiglietti - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental change is growingly reported as an important driver of human migration.
Among all environmental variables, water crises are the most critical factors. To date …

A model of water and sediment balance as determinants of relative sea level rise in contemporary and future deltas

ZD Tessler, CJ Vörösmarty, I Overeem, JPM Syvitski - Geomorphology, 2018 - Elsevier
Modern deltas are dependent on human-mediated freshwater and sediment fluxes.
Changes to these fluxes impact delta biogeophysical functioning and affect the long-term …

Furthering climate-smart farming with the introduction of floating agriculture in Bangladeshi wetlands: Successes and limitations of an innovation transfer

KH Kabir, S Sarker, MN Uddin, HR Leggette… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although floating farming, a climate-smart practice, is a response to climate change
challenges facing agriculture in wetland areas, the adoption of floating agriculture in …

Impacts of Farakka barrage on hydrological flow of Ganges river and environment in Bangladesh

MM Rahman, MM Rahaman - Sustainable Water Resources Management, 2018 - Springer
The Ganges river is the major source of water for dry season irrigation, navigation, fisheries
and reducing salinity intrusion as well as maintaining ecosystem of south-western region in …

Bangladesh: climate change issues, mitigation, and adaptation in the water sector

SE Haque, N Nahar - ACS ES&T Water, 2023 - ACS Publications
Wide-ranging impacts of a changing climate are already being documented in many parts of
Bangladesh, recognized globally as one of the most susceptible countries to the influences …

Strength and durability characteristics of cement-sand stabilized earth blocks

MS Islam, Tausif-E-Elahi, AR Shahriar… - Journal of Materials in …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Conventional building materials like fired clay brick (FCB) and concrete blocks are
expensive and, in some cases, have detrimental effect on environment. Compressed …

Households' willingness to pay for disaster resilient safe drinking water sources in southwestern coastal Bangladesh

MS Islam, S Afrin, MN Ahsan, MZ Haider… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Nonfunctionality of engineered water sources after two catastrophic cyclones—Sidr in
November 2007 and Aila in May 2009—created acute scarcity of safe drinking water in …

Coastal salinity and water management practices in the Bengal Delta: A critical analysis to inform salinisation risk management strategies in Asian Deltas

SE Feist, MA Hoque, KM Ahmed - Earth Systems and Environment, 2023 - Springer
Salinisation within delta environments is a dynamic process governed by the interaction
between coastal, fluvial and geomorphological systems. Increasingly, these have been …

Impact of salinity on infectious disease outbreaks: experiences from the global coastal region

MA Rahaman, MM Rahman… - Good Health and Well …, 2020 - Springer
Salinity is described as the mass in grams of the dissolved inorganic matter in 1 kg of water
(Stumm and Morgan 1996). It is hence asserted as S‰–in parts per thousand. Seawater has …