Highlighting the environmental concerns, researchers in Dhaka have discovered high levels of the heavy metals Cr (chromium) and Cd (cadmium) in textile effluent samples. The samples from the research were collected from the North Western settlements of Savar, Ashulia and Tongi. The study indicates that the levels of heavy metals found in these samples exceeded the permissible World Health Organisation levels. The researchers sounded a particularly ominous warning about the ‘huge amount of cadmium entering into the fresh water’ in the studied areas, noting that ‘since, it has previously been reported that the… weekly intake of cadmium by rice is very high in Bangladesh, such incidence may cause serious health problems in near future’.