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China to help resolve Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh

AFP

Dhaka, Bangladesh | Sun, November 19, 2017 | 08:55 am


Rohingya refugees fill pots for drinking water from a hand pump at
Nayapara refugee campin Teknaf on October 27, 2017. (AFP/Tauseef
Mustafa)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/11/19/china-to-help-resolve-rohingya-crisis-bangladesh.html

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Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees face water shortage crisis as wells run dry

By South Asia correspondent James Bennett

Updated about 7 hours ago

Photo: Abul Kalam says he has a feeling the community "are going to face an acute shortage of water". (ABC News: Som Patidar)

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The hand pump that Abul Kalam uses to fetch drinking water for his family of eight is good for about 20 minutes' supply.

But after that, Rohingya refugees in the sprawling Balukhali camp in southern Bangladesh must wait for its underground reservoir to refill.

"Our three blocks [about 300 families] … completely depend on this well," he says.

Another nearby has dried up already.

"This will stop functioning in the next 15 days, or a month," the 45-year-old says, gesturing at the now-dry pump he'd just been using.
Continued: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-19/australians-helping-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh/9164374

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