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Dhaka WASA MD sees massive water pollution
Dhaka WASA's chief executive Dr K Azharul Haq yesterday cautioned that the problem of getting pollution-free water waa looming large, signalling a crisis ahead, reports UNB.
If proper action is not taken now, the problem will go beyond control, said the managing director of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority in a workshop that discussed the growing problem of environment pollution in the capital.
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Dhaka WASA Jointly organised the workshop at the DCCI audito-ritlm to wrap up a training course on Cleaner Production Programme for tanneries held earlier.
Dr Haq sounded the note of warning after DCCI president ASM Quasem acknowledged that wastes of various industries were heavily polluting the surface-water resources around the capital city.
There were different types of industries causing the water pollution, the DCCI chief observed and identified the tanneries as the main source of water pollution in the city.
But again, said Quasem. the tannery sector is one of the country’s major foreign exchange earners He suggested that the problem could be tackled through a cleaner production programme in the tannery units.
Quasem said as the ground-water table was falling, in the
near future ft would be necessary to use both surface and ground water. So it is necessary to protect both surface ana Sround water sources from in-ustrial pollution."
The chamber leader pointed out that a cleaner production programme, in fact, would lead to Improved productivity through cost-cutting.
While referring to massive pollution of water resources, the WASA managing director said in such a situation, the city would not get clean water, either from underground or from the surface.
And river Buriganga would have only contaminated water, Dr Haq said and called for a Joint action by the industrialists. Dhaka WASA and other quarters concerned to have pollution-free water supply for the city.
In his key-note speech. M Thiruchelvam. a World Bank consultant on environmental engineering, said the cleaner production-programme concept is a new one and Bangladesh is not much behind others to go for such a scheme.
The most important part of it is reducing the waste at the source, and for that what is necessary is a basic change in the behavioural pattern of the entrepreneurs. he pointed out.
Thiruchelvam gave a step-by-step analysis of the methodology for achieving a cleaner production programme.