• Login
    • Library Home
    View Item 
    •   BracU IR
    • Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
    • MAGD Program Thesis Papers (Brac Institute of Governance and Development)
    • View Item
    •   BracU IR
    • Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
    • MAGD Program Thesis Papers (Brac Institute of Governance and Development)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Social impact assessment of water pollution : a case study on Bangshi River, Savar

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Rezaul Kabir.pdf (1.633Mb)
    Date
    2014-11
    Publisher
    BRAC University
    Author
    Kabir, Muhammad Rezaul
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10361/4062
    Abstract
    A river is an important component of environment which carries freshwater, keeps a boundless significance for harmonizing a suitable environment in this earth. But most of the river of Bangladesh especially near the cities is being polluted through discharging various wastes such as industrial wastes and household wastes without any measures and treatment into it. Bangshi River is one of them, which is being extremely polluted in the recent time. This study has been undertaken to investigate water pollution scenario and to assess the social impact of water pollution of the Bangshi River on human health, aquatic life, the society and environment. This water pollution of Bangshi River through discharging of different types of wastes such as industrial wastes, household and growth centre related wastes, chemical fertilizers, and landfill leakages has affected all fishes and most of the aquatic animals to death, disruption of foodchains, and critical diseases to human, destruction of ecosystems and environment, and sociocultural habits of the people in the area. Lack of proper management of industrial wastages release and lack of proper implementation of the policies are the main reasons of it. It can be improved the scenario of water pollution of the river by taking care about recommendations of the study which can have the positive changes to the human and aquatic life, environment and ecosystem of the river area.
    Keywords
    Governance and development; Water pollution
     
    Description
    This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Governance and Development, 2014.
     
    Cataloged from PDF version of thesis report.
     
    Includes bibliographical references (page 65 - 70).
    Department
    BIGD, BRAC University
    Collections
    • MAGD Program Thesis Papers (Brac Institute of Governance and Development)

    Copyright © 2008-2019 Ayesha Abed Library, Brac University 
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
     

     

    Policy Guidelines

    • BracU Policy
    • Publisher Policy

    Browse

    All of BracU Institutional RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Copyright © 2008-2019 Ayesha Abed Library, Brac University 
    Contact Us | Send Feedback