Contaminated water from Saedabad water treatment plant
Friday, 24 April 2009
Mohsin Ali Hawladar
DHAKA city dwellers depend on water of Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (WASA). It is an autonomous enterprise owned by the government of Bangladesh and administered by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD). General people have no alternative but to consume water of WASA. They drink WASA water, cook with WASA water, take bath in WASA water, do household work with WASA water and even perform construction work with WASA water in metropolitan Dhaka. The rich people can sink deep tube well after obtaining license from WASA but the general city dwellers are helpless.
In the last two decades, WASA had miserably failed to supply pure water to the city dwellers. The large surface water treatment plant, which is established in Saedabad area, has been supplying contaminated, cloudy and stinking water for the last couple of years. This so-called refined water when preserved in any container blackish sediment is deposited on the inner surface and at the bottom of the container. Consuming this contaminated water people are suffering from cholera and dysentery frequently. Anyone visiting ICDDR, B at Mahakhali any day can see it with their own eyes.
Almost the entire electronic media and newspapers in the capital carry in their news items and analysis have been focusing on the contaminated water supply of Dhaka WASA. Incidents of agitation by people suffering for want of pure water are common phenomena in different areas of Dhaka city in the summer. But no mentionable improvement has been observed in the last couple of years.
The Bangladesh Standard & Testing Institution (BSTI) should investigate the matter and impose fine on Dhaka WASA and its employees concerned responsible for the crime of supplying contaminated water to city dwellers. The mobile court can also look into the matter and do something for the interest of common city dwellers.
The can be reached at e-mail: mah120cb@yahoo.com
DHAKA city dwellers depend on water of Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (WASA). It is an autonomous enterprise owned by the government of Bangladesh and administered by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD). General people have no alternative but to consume water of WASA. They drink WASA water, cook with WASA water, take bath in WASA water, do household work with WASA water and even perform construction work with WASA water in metropolitan Dhaka. The rich people can sink deep tube well after obtaining license from WASA but the general city dwellers are helpless.
In the last two decades, WASA had miserably failed to supply pure water to the city dwellers. The large surface water treatment plant, which is established in Saedabad area, has been supplying contaminated, cloudy and stinking water for the last couple of years. This so-called refined water when preserved in any container blackish sediment is deposited on the inner surface and at the bottom of the container. Consuming this contaminated water people are suffering from cholera and dysentery frequently. Anyone visiting ICDDR, B at Mahakhali any day can see it with their own eyes.
Almost the entire electronic media and newspapers in the capital carry in their news items and analysis have been focusing on the contaminated water supply of Dhaka WASA. Incidents of agitation by people suffering for want of pure water are common phenomena in different areas of Dhaka city in the summer. But no mentionable improvement has been observed in the last couple of years.
The Bangladesh Standard & Testing Institution (BSTI) should investigate the matter and impose fine on Dhaka WASA and its employees concerned responsible for the crime of supplying contaminated water to city dwellers. The mobile court can also look into the matter and do something for the interest of common city dwellers.
The can be reached at e-mail: mah120cb@yahoo.com