Palash Ranjan Sanyal

Global water security is increasingly threatened. Accounting for water use and risk ought to have the same urgency with which we address carbon. By Jay Famiglietti, Jose Ignacio Galindo, Palash Sanyal, and Li Xu – April 7, 2022 Provocative? Perhaps. But true.

Image by fernando zhiminaicela from Pixabay. Used under Pixabay's Free for commercial use license. Check out Global Voices’ special coverage of the global impact of COVID-19. Around the world, frontline workers like doctors, farmers, shopkeepers, transporters, aid workers, and volunteers are playing a significant role in the fight against COVID-19. In Bangladesh, as in many other countries, such workers are facing an unprecedented level of hardship, and also some criticism.

A fire truck of the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence. Image via Flickr by Shadman Samee. CC By-SA 2.0 Early on the morning of Saturday, March 30, a fire broke out in DNCC Market in Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka. The market was completely destroyed by fire in 2017, and this latest incident takes place just two days after another fire the Banani residential and commercial area killed at least 25 people and injured many more. The 23-floor Faruk Rupayan (FR) Tower was ravaged in the blaze.