Contaminated water
We Dhaka city dwellers depend on water supplied by Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (Wasa). It is a government organization that is administered under the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD). We, the general people have no alternative but to consume water of Wasa. They drink Wasa water, cook with Wasa water, take bath in Wasa water, do household work and even perform construction work with WASA water in metropolitan Dhaka. The rich people can sink deep tube well after obtaining license from Wasa but the general city dwellers are helpless. In the last two decades, Wasa has miserably failed to supply pure water to the city dwellers. The large surface water treatment plant in Sayedabad area, has been supplying contaminated, cloudy and stinking water for the last couple of years. This so-called refined water when preserved in any container, blackish sediment is deposited on the inner surface and at the bottom of the container. Consuming this contaminated water people are suffering from cholera and dysentery frequently. Almost the entire electronic media and newspapers focus on the contaminated water supply of Wasa. Incidents of agitation by people suffering for want of pure water are common phenomena in different areas of Dhaka city in the summer. But no mentionable improvement has been observed in the last couple of years. The Bangladesh Standard & Testing Institution (BSTI) should investigate the matter and impose fine on Wasa and its employees concerned responsible for the crime of supplying contaminated water to city dwellers. A mobile court can also look into the matter and do something for the interest of common city dwellers.
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