GM Maksudul Alam, chairman of the Gabura Union, said 11 out of 15 villages are facing a severe drinking water crisis. He said out of 42,000 people in the union, at least 36,000 are facing a drinking water crisis. Women from villages such as Chandanimukha, Dumuria, Kholshibunia, Hetalbunia, Chakbara, Sora and Parshemari have to walk long distances to collect drinking water. Coastal residents of Satkhira, Bagerhat and Khulna have long suffered from a drinking water crisis. About 23 kilometres of the Water Development Board's 673-kilometre-long embankments were severely damaged, flooding village after village and destroying sources of drinking water.
