Public awareness on safe drinking water stressed

RANGPUR, Mar 12 (BSS): Speakers at an awareness building campaign have stressed the need for ensuring safe drinking water, hygienic sanitation and improved sewerage facilities to reduce water- borne diseases in rural areas for building a healthier nation.
They were addressing launching ceremony of the campaign on 'Safe Drinking Water and Sewerage Systems' in Ward No-3 of Aladipur union in Fulabri upazila of Dinajpur on Wednesday to make the ward totally sanitised by April next.
The WATSAN Committee of Ward No-3 of Aladipur union with the assistance of Fulbari Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) organised the campaign.
Local community-based organisations Friends Group, 'Nabojagaran Shishu Forum' and 'Bhorer Alo' extended cooperation in launching the campaign through bringing a rally in Ward No-3 to create mass public awareness on the issues.
A total of 112 members of the WATSAN Committee of Ward No-3 of Aladipur union, Shishu Forum and local community-based organisations participated in the rally that paraded different rural roads in the localities.