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Abstract
The study was aimed to review the damage of sanitation facilities; since Char land’s dwellers faces manifold
challenges concerning sanitation, hygiene and water during flood. It also explored the possibilities of overcoming the
negative impacts of floods on sources of safe drinking water and sanitation. The study result shows that, about 54%
of the overall latrines were included ring slab with water seal, pit latrine, bush or hanging toilet of the flood affected
people during the flood. Around 19% of the respondents use to do toilet in the open area during flood. Different NGOs
e.g. Jamuna Char Development Project (JCDP), Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), CARE and
Red Crescent Society of Bangladesh works for rehabilitation of the flood affected people and give early warning on
the flood. Depending on location and sanitation conditions, drinking water sources may be contaminated by flood
water during flood and many waterborne diseases can spread out like Cholera, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, diseases of the
skin, Typhoid etc. meantime. The conducted survey also reports that, drinking water and sanitation condition is not
dependable (on the commentary of 64.8% of the responders). Therefore, the flood affected people of Bhuapur are
usually underprivileged from appropriate sanitation facility on flood. They somehow conform themselves while a chain
of problems strikes hardly during flood.