Soumya Balasubramanya is a researcher at the International Water Management Institute. Her expertise includes environmental economics, non-market valuation, development economics, micro-econometrics, and program evaluation. Soumya’s research has been used by bilateral and multilateral financial organizations, and governments, to guide investments and policy in water, sanitation, agriculture, and climate sectors. She is currently working in South, Southeast, and Central Asia and coordinates IWMI’s programming in Bangladesh.
Around 20 million people in Bangladesh are exposed to harmful levels of the arsenic in their drinking water, leading to death, cancers, and other diseases.