Every year 43,000 people in Bangladesh die due to contaminated water and even with the progress that have been made to clean the water supply, there is no decline in the number of deaths in the past years. The corruption and the international neglect in the country is mostly to blame for the polluted water, and if the people don’t initially die from the water, they are going to suffer from skin, liver, kidney, lung, and bladder cancer as well as cardiovascular and lung disease. The water is only contaminated in small towns or places where the water is from a hand pumped well and affects almost 10 million people but, the water in big cities such as Dhaka, goes through uncontaminated water filters and does not have as much as an impacted to the people there. The epidemic in Bangladesh needs to be seen as a major problem to the rest of the world. With the current state of the country, it does not have the power or resources to fix the issue on their own. That is why the rest of the world needs to come together to fix this, because this could become a bigger issue than it is now, and it’s already a major issue. There are other countries that suffer from the same issue and nothing is being done. There needs to be more help from the dominant countries so that this one issue, can be resolved and lower developed countries can start to focus on building up their country other than worrying about how their people are going to get usable water.
