President of 'WASA Nirapod Pani Andolon' Mizanur Rahman presiding over a mass hearing on the quality of the WASA-supplied water, organised by the civic body at the Jatiya Press Club in the city on Tuesday — Focus Bangla 'WASA Nirapod Pani Andolon', (WASA Safe Water Movement), a platform to press for supply of safe water by WASA, at a mass hearing in the city on Tuesday held accountable the state-run water supplying authority for providing unsafe water to the city dwellers.
The campaigners also put forth a five-point demand at the mass hearing held at the Jatiya Press Club.
At the programme, city dwellers expressed their dissatisfaction over the quality of water they are supplied with by WASA and their difficult experiences with it.
They urged the government to take immediate measures to ease the city's prevailing water crisis.
WASA authority is realising money from its subscribers but are not providing safe and clean water to the city people, they commented, also alleging that the authority is backing commercialisation of drinking water.
Economist Anu Muhammad said in different reports submitted to the development organisations WASA claimed that it supplies safe drinking water to about 98 per cent people in Dhaka.
He quested how it can be called safe if the water supplied by WASA needs to be boiled before drinking.
Mentioning commercialisation of water as the reason behind supply of unsafe water, he observed that unsafe water cause different deadly diseases which ultimately force people to expend more in healthcare.
CPB central committee member Ruhin Hossain Prince pointed finger at some development projects around Jurain area in the city as playing a major role in increasing commercial use of drinking water.
National Freedom Council Secretary Foyjul Hakim Lala observed that not only the Dhaka city but also the entire country is facing crisis of safe water, on which the authorities concerned should give more focus.
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