Separate water supply line
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to a front-page report of your daily of 19 August 2009, issued instructions to Wasa to install separate supply lines to distribute pure drinking water to Dhaka city dwellers. The reasons mentioned in the news item are to stop wastage and resolve the existing problems. The instructions were passed on to a delegation of Bangabanbdhu Prakaushali Parishad and Institution of Engineers Bangladesh, while they made a courtesy call with the PM. The installation of the total water line of the city is really a gigantic task and it involves huge money and time. Moreover, when the installation work will start, digging hazards will surely cause immense sufferings to the city dwellers. The existing position of digging the city roads by different agencies is intolerable to the city dwellers. The standard of drinking water in Dhaka city at the moment is not that low excepting sporadic complaints from some quarters. Acute public sufferings of the city dwellers at the moment are not due to drinking water, though a lot of things remain to be done in this regard. Water logging from short lived rain, mal-coordination among different agencies, leaving the dug roads un-repaired for long, frequent load shedding, among others are the major problems faced the city dwellers.
Installing separate water lines is perhaps not the number one problem and does not need to be solved overnight. The right thing should be done at the right time!
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