The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta with numerous islands in the southern part of the region.

The Matla River is prominent and there are many streams and water channels locally known as khals.

Basanti is one of the main deltaic islands in the Sundarbans region, bounded by the Matla and Vidyadhari rivers.

[6] Basanti Road is linked to the Eastern metropolitan bypass near Science City in Kolkata.

Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved overhead tank and service reservoir.

The "amar bon" (my forest) project aims at planting more trees in the area as a preventive measure towards global warming.

Mostly people from the Canning, Basanti, Gosaba, Kultali, Mathurapur, Patharpratima, Namkhana, Sagar and Kakdwip are honey collectors.

A Rs 250 crore rural electrification project is being implemented on the islands to provide the people of the area with power through non-conventional energy sources, as conventional grid supply is not feasible.

The state government had appointed the WBREDA as the nodal agency for its solar power project for the Sundarbans.

[16] Four launches with doctors carrying medicines, sophisticated portable X-ray and echo-cardiograph machines, provided by the French author Dominique Lapierre move along the waterways of the Sundarbans to its furthest corners.

Residents of such places as Sandeshkhali, Basanti, Gosaba and Kultali have expressed their gratitude to him for his support when he came in 2004.

[17] Since 1981, Lapierre has dedicated half of his royalty earnings from his books to sustain a humanitarian movement in the slums of Kolkata and the deprived areas of rural Bengal.

Water samples collected from tubewells in the affected places contained arsenic above the normal level (10 microgram a litre as specified by the World Health Organization).