CWASA urge govt to hand over Halda and Karnafuli
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG, Mar 28: The Chittagong Water and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) have asked the government to hand over control of the Halda and the Karnafuli to make the rivers pollution-free for ensuring supply of drinking water to the city dwellers. The senior officials of CWASA made the demand at a workshop jointly organized by Bangladesh Water Partnership at the CWASA conference hall in the city on Monday. They said that the CWASA has a plan to meet 92 per cent of its total production from the surface water by lessening dependence on the deep tube wells from which the CWASA is currently getting 55 per cent of its water required. "The impact on ecology will be very negative if we keep on extracting the underground water at the current rate. That is why we must shift to the surface water and our plans have been based on that, instead of underground water," said CWASA deputy managing director (DMD) (administration) Md Abdul Awal. "If the government gives us authority over the Halda and the Karnafuli rivers, which are the main sources of water for our ongoing projects, we are hopeful to meet the maximum demand of the city people through implementation of the projects," he said. CWASA engineer Ejaz Rasul presented the keynote paper titled 'Status of Water Supply in Chittagong: Problems and Prospects' in the workshop. He gave detailed description of the projects undertaken by the CWASA that can meet about 75 per cent of the total demand for water by 2014. It was addressed among others by CWASA managing director engineer AKM Fazlullah, executive committee member of Bangladesh Water Partnership Dr Khondaker Azharul Haq, DMD (engineering) Tauhidur Rahman and Dr Md Yusuf. They said that currently the CWASA supplies 210 million litres of water per day, which is 42 per cent of the demand.
CHITTAGONG, Mar 28: The Chittagong Water and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) have asked the government to hand over control of the Halda and the Karnafuli to make the rivers pollution-free for ensuring supply of drinking water to the city dwellers. The senior officials of CWASA made the demand at a workshop jointly organized by Bangladesh Water Partnership at the CWASA conference hall in the city on Monday. They said that the CWASA has a plan to meet 92 per cent of its total production from the surface water by lessening dependence on the deep tube wells from which the CWASA is currently getting 55 per cent of its water required. "The impact on ecology will be very negative if we keep on extracting the underground water at the current rate. That is why we must shift to the surface water and our plans have been based on that, instead of underground water," said CWASA deputy managing director (DMD) (administration) Md Abdul Awal. "If the government gives us authority over the Halda and the Karnafuli rivers, which are the main sources of water for our ongoing projects, we are hopeful to meet the maximum demand of the city people through implementation of the projects," he said. CWASA engineer Ejaz Rasul presented the keynote paper titled 'Status of Water Supply in Chittagong: Problems and Prospects' in the workshop. He gave detailed description of the projects undertaken by the CWASA that can meet about 75 per cent of the total demand for water by 2014. It was addressed among others by CWASA managing director engineer AKM Fazlullah, executive committee member of Bangladesh Water Partnership Dr Khondaker Azharul Haq, DMD (engineering) Tauhidur Rahman and Dr Md Yusuf. They said that currently the CWASA supplies 210 million litres of water per day, which is 42 per cent of the demand.