Groundwater quality and human health risk assessment for safe and sustainable water supply of Dhaka City dwellers in Bangladesh

Bodrud-Doza, Md.; Islam, Salequl; Rume, Tanjena; Quraishi, Shamshad B.; Rahman, M. Safiur; Bhuiyan, Mohammad Amir Hossain

doi:10.1016/j.gsd.2020.100374

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“…It is found that, CA results strongly matched with the results of PCA, and classified into four major cluster or group ( Figure 5 ). Generally, particular cluster shows similar characteristics with respect to the analysed factors ( Bodrud-Doza et al., 2020b ). However, Cluster 1 consists of statements S10–S13, which are related to the physical and mental effects of stress.…”

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“…Multivariate statistical tools i.e., principal component analysis (PCA), and cluster analysis (CA) were applied in this study to examine the interface between the respondent's perception and factors responsible for human stress. PCA was performed using Varimax rotation with Kaiser Normalization, which used to maximize the sum of variance of the factor coefficients ( Ahmed et al., 2019 ; Bodrud-Doza et al., 2019 , 2020b ), which better explains the possible causes of human stress. However, the calculated factor loadings together with cumulative percentage and percentages of variance are depicted in Table 4 .…”

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Exploring COVID-19 stress and its factors in Bangladesh: A perception-based study

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has aggregated mental health sufferings throughout the entire world. Suicide completions are the extreme consequences of COVID-19 related psychological burdens, which was reported in many countries including Bangladesh. However, there are lack of study assessing COVID-19 related human stress and its’ associations with other relevant factors affecting quality of life in the country, and which were explored in the present study. Methods An online based survey was carried out among 340 Bangladeshi adult populations (65.90% male; mean age 26.23 ± 6.39) by utilizing the socio-demographics, possible human stress due to COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. Dataset were analysed through a set of statistical tools e.g., T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation Matrix (PCM), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Cluster Analysis (CA). Results About 85.60% of the participants are in COVID-19-related stress, which results in sleep shortness, short temper, and chaos in family. Fear of COVID-19 infection (i.e., self and/or family member(s), and/or relatives), hampering scheduled study plan and future career, and financial difficulties are identified as the main causes of human stress. Results of PCM explain the relationship among the factors of human stress, and found economic hardship and food crisis are linked together causes stress of mass people, while hamper of formal education and future plan create stress of career seeker. T-test, and one-way ANOVA illustrate demographic characteristics (i.e., occupation, age, gender, and marital status) have significant effects on elevated mental stress. Moreover, PCA and CA results revealed significant interface among the respondents’ perception and factors of human stress, which matched with the existing scenario of the country. Conclusions Considering the present findings, it is essential to introduce time-oriented policy, and implement care monitoring plans in the country, which may help in managing the pandemic as well as nurturing the public mental health to combat COVID-19 related psychological challenges.

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confidence: 99%

Exploring COVID-19 stress and its factors in Bangladesh: A perception-based study

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Khan

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“…Generally, the T test is performed to determine whether there is any statistically significant difference between the means of two groups, while the one-way ANOVA is used to determine whether there are any statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent groups (Howell 2002 ; Kim 2015 ). Furthermore, PCA is a data reduction tool that demonstrates each potentiality of the parameters and their confidence level in large sample datasets (Bodrud-Doza et al 2020a ). PCA was performed using Varimax rotation with Kaiser Normalization, in order to maximize the sum of the variance of the factor coefficients (Bodrud-Doza et al 2019b ), which better explains the studied factors.…”

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Water, sanitation, hygiene and waste disposal practices as COVID-19 response strategy: insights from Bangladesh

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“…Water pollution is a common phenomenon of a developing country like India, and Bangladesh, where domestic and industrial wastes are dumped into rivers without treatment (Islam and Azam, 2015;Islam and Huda, 2016;Bodrud-Doza et al, 2020;Yunus et al, 2020). During the lockdown period, the major industrial sources of pollution have shrunk or completely stopped, which helped to reduce the pollution load (Yunus et al, 2020).…”

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Environmental effects of COVID-19 pandemic and potential strategies of sustainability

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The global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting every part of human lives, including the physical world. The measures taken to control the spread of the virus and the slowdown of economic activities have significant effects on the environment. Therefore, this study intends to explore the positive and negative environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, by reviewing the available scientific literatures. This study indicates that, the pandemic situation significantly improves air quality in different cities across the world, reduces GHGs emission, lessens water pollution and noise, and reduces the pressure on the tourist destinations, which may assist with the restoration of the ecological system. In addition, there are also some negative consequences of COVID-19, such as increase of medical waste, haphazard use and disposal of disinfectants, mask, and gloves; and burden of untreated wastes continuously endangering the environment. It seems that, economic activities will return soon after the pandemic, and the situation might change. Hence, this study also outlines possible ways to achieve long-term environmental benefits. It is expected that the proper implementation of the proposed strategies might be helpful for the global environmental sustainability.

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Groundwater quality and human health risk assessment for safe and sustainable water supply of Dhaka City dwellers in Bangladesh

Cited by 103 publications

References 56 publications

Exploring COVID-19 stress and its factors in Bangladesh: A perception-based study

Exploring COVID-19 stress and its factors in Bangladesh: A perception-based study

Water, sanitation, hygiene and waste disposal practices as COVID-19 response strategy: insights from Bangladesh

Environmental effects of COVID-19 pandemic and potential strategies of sustainability

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