Drainage

Chashma Canal in Chattogram is choked with plastic waste and debris. Despite large-scale projects to address waterlogging, waste management remains neglected. Temporary cleaning efforts take place before monsoons, but without a coordinated system, canals and drains continue to be clogged, worsening the city's drainage crisis. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin
Bangladesh

Is coordinated waste management the missing piece in Ctg's flood puzzle?

Canals and drains, temporarily cleared during the monsoon, quickly become clogged again due to unregulated waste disposal in the absence of an effective disposal system

Heavy rainfall in Azimpur leaves city dwellers wading through waist-deep water on rickshaws and vans on Friday. Parts of Dhaka were submerged after 130mm of rain fell in just 6 hours. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Urbanisation

Dhaka's drainage master plan stalled for 8 years, new plans underway

A factory presents a tumbledown look at the Naogaon Bscic Industrial Estate which is grappling with several challenges. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Khorshed Alam
Bangladesh

Gas crisis, poor drainage push Naogaon BSCIC Industrial Estate to brink

Huge drainage renovation can’t save Sylhet from even a little rain
Bangladesh

Huge drainage renovation can’t save Sylhet from even a little rain

File photo of DNCC Mayor Md Atiqul Islam
Bangladesh

Strict measures against sewage lines emptying into surface drainage: Mayor Atiq

Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin
Bangladesh

Drains or death traps?

A boy walks past a truck in Aminbazar landfill in Savar. The photo was taken recently. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Dhaka landfills in disarray

An excavator pulls out garbage from the bottom of Uttara Lake in the capital. The photo was taken at sector 10 recently. Photo: Mumit M
Bangladesh

Wasa investment to solve waterlogging goes down the drain

A 36km drain for Tk473 crore
Infrastructure

A 36km drain for Tk473 crore

Chattogram Wasa pours 40 billion litres of water down the drain yearly
Infrastructure

Chattogram Wasa pours 40 billion litres of water down the drain yearly