ABSTRACT
Arsenic (As) pollution in the drinking water creates a great threat for public health in South Asia. Waters show that several sources of drinking water have elevated concentrations above national and international standard in Bangladesh. The SDGs are a set of 17 interdependent thematic goals which themselves are broken down into 169 specific targets and 232 monitoring indicators. The present study determines the link between As related health hazared and SDGs and deveplop the model for As, arsenicosis and the SDGs. The sixth goal, SDG 6 focus on water and sanitation and third goal SDG 3 concentrates specifically on good health and well being related issues. In line with this interdependence between SDGs, As and health related targets are also either explicitly or indirectly linked to many other SDGs. For example, the SDGs on water, health and wellbeing contain targets that are directly contingent on mitigating the As problem. Almost all the SDGs are directly related to As and arsenicosis or will contribute to indirectly. Arsenic is direct threat for SDG 6 and arsenicosis is for SDG 3 however, almost all other goals are related to or contribute to health and well-being and water issues. More than 50 SDG indicators, across more than 12 goals, have been identified which are directly or indirectly linked to As and arsenicosis crisis.
