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Drinking water scarce in Barisal poura area

From Our Correspondent
BARISAL. July 25 : Acute scarcity of pure drinking water persists in municipal area of this district for quite a long time. The exists six pumps can hardly meet the requirement Only eleven lakh gallons are being supplied against the requirements of about 30 lakh gallons of water per day. Misuse of water through open hydrants and other leakage is about 10 is per cent.
Shortage of water is prevailing almost everywhere in the poura area — in hospitals, different residential areas, col-lege premises and in government quarters.
Contamination with germs and bacteria in water is a long felt problem of the inhabitants of Barisal poura area.
No effective measures have been taken as yet to ensure purity of water.
According to the Public Health Engineering Department (PHE) samples of water taken from five different places showed high degree of contaminations.
Such a situation is mostly due to negligence on the part of concerned quarters to clean underground water reservoirs.
The report of PHE revealed that due to absence of regular washing and maintenance of water tanks pipelines supply water is being contaminated and eventually being responsible for diarrhoeal diseases of thousands of people of the town every year.
Besides, smooth supply of pure drinking water of Barisal poura areas was included under the five district water supply project in 1984 which was due to be implemented with financial assistance from Aslan Development Bank (ADB). The project started In 1989 with an estimated cost of 12 crore Taka in Barisal. The estimate was later revised to 18 crore Taka as it has been started after five years.
Under this project 78 km new pipelines, five overhead water tanks and 12 deep tubewells were constructed. Each overhead water tank has a capacity of storing 2,20.000 gallons.
About 50 km water pipeline will also be connected with the new pipeline, it is learnt.
Work on the project is al-most complete and the overhead water tanks have been put into operation.
But deep tubewells designed to lift 20 litres of water per second is lifting only 10 litres per second.
Besides, at many points water pipelines both old and new have created various types of problems.
According to informed sources, it is feared that in old narrow dtametre water pipelines may not bear the heavy pressure of water being supplied through thick diame-tre new pipelines.