PM Hasina urges city dwellers not to waste water

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government has been working to ensure the supply of safe drinking water to union level from district and upazila.

“Our target is to make safe drinking water available to the union level people from district and upazila level. We have been working to this end,” she said while inaugurating two water treatment plants and laying foundation stone of another at a city hotel.

“We are currently providing safe drinking water to not only in Dhaka but also in the divisional cities,” she added.

Inaugurating and laying foundation stone of the Padma (Jashaldia) Water Treatment Plant (phase-1) and Well Field Construction Project at Tetuljhora-Bhakurta in Savar upazila (Phase-1) project and Gandhapur Water Treatment Plant at Rupganj in Narayanganj, the prime minister called upon all to maintain austerity in using water.

The first two projects have the capacity of supplying 450 million and 150 million litres of water respectively while the third one has the capacity to treat 500 million litres of water.

LGRD minister Md Tajul Islam, local government division secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed, Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming, South Korea ambassador in Dhaka Hu Kang-il, country director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Manmohan Parkash and Dhaka WASA managing director Taqsem A Khan spoke at the occasion.

A video presentation was also screened on various projects taken by Dhaka WASA in the last 10 years to meet the growing demand of water in the capital while a brief presentation on the three projects was given at the function.