Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Keeping a protected standard of water quality is considered to be very significant to all stakeholders, nowadays. Water quality is turning into a very important agenda required to be implemented to ensure the fullest implementation of certain sustainable development goals of the UN. It is essential for every individual organization along with the country at large to ensure the maximum level of water pollution reduction at their end through formulating and implementing relevant policy guidelines. Ensuring safe and healthy drinking water for all in the future is also a matter of concern as duly addressed in the SDGs of the UN. Medicine hormones, toxic chemicals, and other compounds are responsible for a variety of health problems in fish, and other aquatic animals and contaminate drinking water that people and livestock use. Daffodil International University (DIU) considers the well-being of its stakeholders as a top priority agenda. The formulation of general guidelines on water pollution reduction, complying with the environmental laws of the country, is a testimony to that concern of DIU.

Guidelines:

1. The Planning and Development wing of DIU is entrusted with the responsibility to coordinate, facilitate and oversee the implementation of aspects related to water pollution and to get required environmental permission from relevant government authorities.
2. All locations in the DIU campus at the Daffodil Smart City, and other spaces owned or controlled by the university are included under the guidelines.
3. Chemicals, used in laboratories by different departments and medicines along with medical wastes produced at DIU Medical Center, will be handled separately with proper care and caution so that chemicals can never be discharged through the normal drainage system of the university. The toxic chemicals and toxic wastes must be kept in separate toxic waste bins and be dumped into the dedicated toxic waste collection vehicles of the local government body. The concerned academic departments, medical center, and Planning & Development wing of DIU will ensure it.
4. As some chemicals like Phosphates can kill fish and other aquatic animals by reducing the oxygen level in the water, the Procurement Department of DIU will ensure the purchase of non-toxic cleaners and biodegradable cleaners (phosphate-free detergent and dish cleaner, etc.) to be used for various cleaning purposes to avoid probable pollution.
5. Grease, fat, and used cooking oil should be disposed of in a separate trash bin for disposal with other solid wastes in the waste collection vehicles of the local government body.
6. The Planning and Development wing of DIU will ensure setting up environment-friendly devices to ensure safe and pure drinking water across the campus free for all.
7. No chemicals and pesticides should be used on the planted vegetation and farming on campus as these chemicals and pesticides are mixed with rainwater and can make the water bodies of the university campus polluted. The Department of Nutrition and Food Engineering and Planning & Development wing of DIU will ensure the use of only organic composting in campus farming.
8. The water bodies situated within the DIU campus will need to be cleaned up every three months in an environmentally-friendly way. The Planning & Development wing will take initiatives to plant trees and grasses along the banks of the ponds, lakes and other water bodies to reduce erosion and water pollution.
9. The Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Architecture with the support of the Planning & Development wing of DIU will ensure rainwater harvesting; reuse of the used water; and ensure required water recycling programs on campus.
10. The Planning & Development wing of DIU will ensure that no plastic bottles & containers, wastes, and other materials be dumped into the water bodies on campus.
11. The Transport department of DIU will regularly check whether oil and other fluids leak from motor vehicles which also contribute to water pollution. They need to ensure proper maintenance and replace the worn parts of the vehicles to avoid such leakage.
12. The students’ clubs along with respective academic departments can initiate cleaning up the sea beaches and rivers of the country as well with assistance from the University to facilitate water pollution control programs across the country.
13. Relevant academic Departments in cooperation with the Planning & Development wing of DIU will ensure necessary training and awareness programs so that students, faculty, and employees of the University can easily identify pollution sources and take steps toward solutions.