| BANGLADESH |
| Basic
Water Information |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Indicators |
|
Data |
Year |
Source |
| Water Resources |
|
|
|
|
|
| Total annual water resources
(AWR) |
|
1,211 |
cu. km. |
|
9 |
| Internal renewable water resources |
|
105 |
cu. km. |
2001 |
9 |
Water Poverty Index (Index
Number 0-100; lower scores indicate water scarcity and poor water
provision) |
|
54 |
|
2002 |
9 |
| Renewable water resources
per capita |
8,089.0 |
cu.
m. |
2004 |
9 |
| Reservoir capacity as
percentage of AWR |
|
0.28 |
% |
1995 |
3 |
| Average Precipitation (1961-1990) |
|
2666 |
mm/year |
1 |
| Ecosystem Area: Water bodies |
|
11951 |
sq-km |
9 |
| Water from international rivers as
share of annual water resources |
|
91 |
% |
9 |
| Ground water produced annually |
|
21.09 |
km 3 /year |
1 |
| Surface water produced annually |
|
83.91 |
km 3 /year |
1 |
| Total internal renewable water resources |
|
105 |
km 3 /year |
1 |
| Water Use |
|
|
|
|
|
| Total annual water withdrawals
as share of AWR |
Total |
1.2 |
% |
1990 |
9 |
| |
Domestic |
12 |
% |
1990 |
9 |
| |
Industry |
2 |
% |
1990 |
9 |
| |
Agriculture |
86 |
% |
1990 |
9 |
| Water withdrawals per
capita |
|
134 |
cu.m. |
1990 |
9 |
| Irrigated land as percentage
of irrigation potential |
|
49 |
% |
1990 |
1 |
| Groundwater withdrawals
per capita |
|
97.6 |
cu.m. |
1990 |
9 |
| Agricultural water use |
|
96 |
% |
2000 |
1 |
| Domestic water use |
|
3 |
% |
2000 |
1 |
| Industrial water use |
|
1 |
% |
2000 |
1 |
| Source of Irrigation water |
Surface |
30.8 |
% |
2000 |
1 |
| |
Ground |
69.2 |
% |
2000 |
1 |
| Watershed Management |
|
|
|
|
|
| Annual rate of change
in forest cover (1990-2000) |
|
1.3 |
% |
2000 |
2 |
| Water and Poverty |
|
|
|
|
|
| Population with access
to water supply |
Urban |
99 |
% |
2000 |
7 |
| |
Rural |
97 |
% |
2000 |
7 |
| Population with access
to sanitation |
Urban |
82 |
% |
2000 |
7 |
| |
Rural |
44 |
% |
2000 |
7 |
| Incidence of diarrhoea
in children under 5 years of |
|
|
|
|
|
| age two weeks prior to
the survey |
|
6.1 |
% |
2000 |
5 |
| Number of deaths due to
floods and droughts |
1990-2001 |
1,929 |
persons |
|
8 |
| Economic losses due to
floods and droughts |
1990-2001 |
3,204 |
$ million |
|
8 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Sources: |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1. FAO Aquastat (http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/aglw/aquastatweb/main/html/aquastat.htm) |
|
|
|
|
| 2. FAO State of the World's
Forests (http://www.fao.org/forestry/FO/SOFO/sofo-e.stm) |
|
|
|
|
| 3. Raskin, P et al. 1997.
Water Futures: assessment of long range patterns and problems. Stockholm
Environment Institute. |
|
| 4. United Nations (http://www.un.org/popin/data.htm) |
|
|
|
|
|
| 5. UNICEF (http://www.childinfo.org/index2.htm) |
|
|
|
|
|
| 6. World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/databytopic.html) |
|
|
|
|
| 7. World Health Organization
(http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/Globassessment/GlasspdfTOC.htm) |
|
|
| 8. WHO Collaborating Centre
for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (http://www.cred.be/emdat/into.html) |
|
|
| 9. World Resources Institute
(http://earthtrends.wri.org/) |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| na - not available |
|
|
|
|
|
| Updated: 22 March 2002 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
