Citizens take dirty water: RCC unmoved

Dirty water seeping into leaked pipes in Rajshahi Upashahar and Ambagan areas. PHOTO: STAR

This correspondent during a visit yesterday saw leaked and broken water supply pipelines connected with sewerage drains at many points. Polluted and dirty water from drains are seeping into the pipes.

Many city dwellers also complained to this correspondent that the pipeline water is very dirty and highly contaminated. The water is of orange and gray colour and emitting very bad smell, they said. The situation is continuing for several weeks but the City Corporation officials did not do anything in this regard, they alleged.

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Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) sources said there has been a rush of patients at the hospital with intestinal and water-borne diseases in the last few days.

Most of them are from Ambagan, Rajshahi Housing Estate, Shalbagan, Asham Colony, Bhadra, Beelshimla, Chandipur, Laxmipur, Kadirganj, Ranibazar and Malopara areas where water pipelines are faulty.

An engineer at water supply section in Rajshahi City Corporation, when contacted, said old pipes might have leaked at places but the people of the areas did not inform them. They did not get any complaint, he said yesterday.