Lack of coordination causes severe shortage of power and water
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Much of the woes of city dwellers arise from lack of coordination between different service-providing entities.
It is an accepted fact that we have an acute shortage of power. This has made us abjectly accept frequent but very bothersome loadshedding imposed by DESA and Dhaka Power Distribution Company.
It is also an accepted fact that we have shortage of water and the WASA cannot supply us enough.
WASA needs power to lift water from its deep tubewells by its power pumps to the overhead tanks and also to distribute that water to the far reaches of its franchise. And the city dwellers also need power to lift water from their own reservoirs to their overhead tanks.
Now, as it happens more often than not, the moment the WASA pumps starts lifting water or starts distributing water, power goes off in the name of loadshedding causing immense suffering to the citizens.
Cannot WASA and the power distribution entities coordinate between themselves and keep the few hours a day, during which water is to be lifted and distributed, free from loadshedding? Is it beyond all human ingenuity to achieve such a coordination between service providers?
Hasanuzzaman Khan
Mirpur, Dhaka
It is an accepted fact that we have an acute shortage of power. This has made us abjectly accept frequent but very bothersome loadshedding imposed by DESA and Dhaka Power Distribution Company.
It is also an accepted fact that we have shortage of water and the WASA cannot supply us enough.
WASA needs power to lift water from its deep tubewells by its power pumps to the overhead tanks and also to distribute that water to the far reaches of its franchise. And the city dwellers also need power to lift water from their own reservoirs to their overhead tanks.
Now, as it happens more often than not, the moment the WASA pumps starts lifting water or starts distributing water, power goes off in the name of loadshedding causing immense suffering to the citizens.
Cannot WASA and the power distribution entities coordinate between themselves and keep the few hours a day, during which water is to be lifted and distributed, free from loadshedding? Is it beyond all human ingenuity to achieve such a coordination between service providers?
Hasanuzzaman Khan
Mirpur, Dhaka