Editorial
Fixing storm sewers
A step that must be replicated
SOME overdue measures are finally being taken by Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa). They have moved to fix the water logging and sewerage problem the city has been facing for years. Wasa signed an MOU with a Dutch company VitensEvides International to clean the storm sewers of the capital using modern technology available in the Netherlands.
The water logging from this monsoon is still fresh in our minds. It did not take much rain for Dhaka city to be underwater which caused disruption in daily life for the city-dwellers and created long term issues like road damage in many areas. Many roads are now showing up fresh potholes as scars and they are left in a deplorable state.
Under the project in question, Segunbagicha Box Culvert (Drain) and Kalyanpur Canal will be cleaned up first. The rest of the sewers will be cleansed gradually in the next 10 years. Ten years is, of course, a long time and we are not entirely sure if we can afford to keep damaging our city infrastructure and interrupt the lives of people for that long.
We urge Wasa to start this work immediately and to use the Dutch technology extensively so that when next monsoon comes around we are not singing the same sad song again.
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