Drinking water transportation
Photo: Liton Rahman /Driknews
The recent crisis in the availability of drinking water transportation, storage and distribution capabilities in the remote areas of the country points to lack of development programmes in this sector. There is urgent need of water carrier cargo boats in the IWT sector; with storage tanks near the jetties in different parts of northern and southern districts. The IWT sector received step-motherly treatment compared to the roads, bridges and culverts' by the preceding regimes. Now even in the dry season, the earth embankments around the water bodies are crumbling, damaging crops. In the prevailing political culture practised by society, the long-term projects are avoided, for publicity of short-term, visible projects. The party always comes first in the priority category. Even in the road and rail transport sectors, there is scarcity of water wagons. The hospitals are full of patients suffering from water-borne diseases.
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