Wasa MD stresses use of surface water
In the next 9 years, surface water will be used to meet 70 percent of Dhaka city's total demand for water, said Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) Managing Director Taqsem A Khan yesterday.
“There is no water crisis in Dhaka city,” he said, adding that supplies were sometimes delayed in some pockets of the city due to technical reasons.
Taqsem was addressing journalists at a views exchange meeting at Wasa Bhaban.
He enumerated some steps Wasa took for the upcoming month of Ramadan. Those include increasing the use of water-carrying trolleys and rickshaw-vans, strengthening monitoring of 11 Wasa teams, ensuring water supply at mosques and keeping 15 complaint centres open 24 hours a day.
Only when Wasa is able to meet the capital's demand for 225 crore litres of water per day solely from surface water will the water crisis end, he said.
Currently, Wasa can supply 210 to 220 crore litres per day. It consists of 13 percent surface water and 87 percent groundwater.
Taqsem said the construction of Sayedabad Water Treatment Plant (phase-II), with a 22.50 crore litre per day capacity, will be completed by December.
Moreover, Wasa was going over the construction plans of Pagla Water Treatment Plant and Khilkhet Water Treatment Plant, he said.
On water supplied by Wasa sometimes found to be dirty, Taqsem said water supplies had been clean for the past few months since the construction of the pre-treatment unit at the Sayedabad plant.
Leaks on the supply pipes sometimes contaminated the water, he said.
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