Malnutrition has long been regarded as a widespread public health problem especially in the poorest part of Bangladesh. For determining nutritional status of women living in South-West coastal belt of Bangladesh, in this regard, Shyamnagar Upazilla of Satkhira district was selected. A random questionnaire survey was conducted by pre scheduled structured questionnaire among the 6 villages from Gabura and Munshiganj union of the Shyamnagar UpaziIla during November, 2012 to January, 2013. A total of 120 households (preferably women) were randomly selected from the six study villages based on mainly livelihood pattern of the households such as crop production, shrimp culture and Sunderbans depended activities. In the study area, about 54.17% women had BMI of 18.5-24.9 and mean body weight of 49.75 ± 8.36 kg. About 79.16% families had vegetable gardens around their houses and they were gardening mainly for consumption and additional income of the family. Most of the families could not afford to enough eat more egg, fish or meat after Aila occurred because of low availability due to soil salinity. Salinity caused many diseases; skin disease was one of them. About 28% families bought food in credit and 20.14% respondents in Gabura and 31.59% in Munshiganj paid their loan at Pohela Boishakh. They received treatment facilities for their health hazards from village doctors and public health centre during the period of disease occurred. This study concluded that salinity affect the livelihood and nutrition on the community of the coastal belt.
This study was conducted to assess the quality of different industrial wastewater. Some physicochemical parameters viz., pH, EC, TDS, Na+, K+, Ca++, Mg++, CO32-, HCO3-, Cl-, SO42-, PO43- including heavy metal contents like Pb, Cd, Ni, Cr, As, Zn and Cu concentration from collected wastewater samples were analyzed. Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer was used for analyzing the heavy metals in the wastewater samples. The results revealed that, the values of pH, EC, TDS ranged between 6.44-9.0, 471-4307 ?S cm-1, 1952-5209 mg L-1, respectively. The higher mean concentrations of Na+, K+, Ca++, Mg++, CO3-, HCO3-, Cl-, SO42-, PO43- were 1407.8, 27.9, 69.9, 76.6, 2.7, 11.7, 1688, 76.6, 6.1 mg L-1, respectively. The mean concentration of Cd, Ni, Cr, Zn, and Cu was 0.17, 0.87, 85.73, 0.80, and 1.56 mg L-1, respectively. Among trace elements Ni and Cd, Zn and Cd, Zn and Cr showed a positive relationship. To avoid the harmful effects of wastewater on environment it is imperative to treat industrial effluents before discharge into open environment.J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 9(2): 21-25 2016
Assessment the effect of industrial wastewater on the yield and trace element contents of red amaranth was carried out by this study. Thirty wastewater samples were collected from five major environment-polluting industries namely pharmaceuticals, dyeing, leather, food, and plastic industries at three different locations. Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer was used for analyzing the trace elements in the wastewater-irrigated samples of red amaranth. Higher mean concentrations of Pb, Cd, Ni, Cr, As, Zn, and Cu in red amaranth were 0.97, 0.20, 1.23, 52.72, 0.52, 0.85, and 2.62 ?g g-1. The percentage of yield reduction in red amaranth were 11.06, 12.73, 14.07, 3.46, 7.82 % for T2, T3, T4, T5 and T6 respectively compared to distilled water control (T1). The results concludes that the wastewater samples of pharmaceuticals, dyeing, leather and plastic industries were more polluted than the wastewater of food industries. Vegetables grown in industrial areas contain trace elements viz. Cr, Ni and Cu which would be health hazardous for consumer.J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 9(2): 27-30 2016
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