Need for river-based water supply projects

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UNFORTUNATELY, we have not heard of any new plan for use of river waters for supplying to Dhaka. There is a great need for undertaking river-based water supply projects. All the rivers flowing past Dhaka are seen as getting more and more polluted by the unregulated drainage of all kinds of effluents in them. This has made the operation of the already existing Sayedabad plant difficult.
It is now also necessary to take the steps to keep the rivers clean. This would call for severe regulation of drainage of effluents in the rivers backed up by laws and their stringent application. All industries on the banks of rivers that discharge effluents on them will have to be obliged to acquire effluent treatment facilities within a time-frame.
Md Irfanullah
Babar Road
Mohammadpur,
Dhaka.