B. Answer the following questions :
- What, according to you, is the significance of water?
- Why have the United Nations identified drinking water problem as a challenge?
- Narrate the conditions of the rivers in Bangladesh in your own words.
- What has been depicted in a report published in the Daily Sun?
- Do you think the Buriganga river is dying? If so, why
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