Water crisis
Mahbubar Rahman, Dhaka
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) did sink a deep-well at the former passport office located at New Eskaton area six years back to mitigate the shortage in water supply around the pump location. During the past years, too many multi- storied apartments have been built and more are in the process of being built, while no other additional water supply source has been created in this area. Thus water shortage is felt acutely by the dwellers of this locality. Recently, road dividers have been demolished and built again, surface drains were totally distorted before the job was complete by laying additional telephone cables and so on.The City Corporation street lights are neither put off in time nor lit in time as one can see street lights in broad daylight. Money thus wasted can definitely finance several deep tube-well pumps here and there in Dhaka city where water crisis is acute. The Annual Development Plan (ADP) has an average expenditure budget of around Tk 18,000 crore but many expenditures are not for the benefit of the common masses or taxpayers. However, deep tube-wells should be sunk immediately at Eskaton and many areas in order to meet the water crisis.
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