WASA's aims and objectives!
If I am not mistaken, WASA was set up with the idea of providing potable water to urban areas of Dhaka, and making water easily available, and also to ensure clean and hygienic sanitation and sewage disposal. All these facilities were installed at huge cost to the taxpayers; but what is the result today? WASA's water supply could not meet the demand, and now it has become a water rationing authority; a function that it enjoys, exercising power and authority by throttling water supply! About sewerage, the less said the better! Today, WASA stands for: "Water Available? Sometimes Available!" That sometimes will soon dwindle down to two hours out of twenty four in a day!
WASA awaits the setting up of another giant corporation "SGA", the Sewage Gasification Authority. There will then be two Authorities; with lots of 'authority' but no responsibility; to ensure effective water supply and sewage disposal! That is left to imagination; as 'implementation' is nobody's business! Exercising authority is what they all excel at!
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