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Use integrated management to ensure pure drinking water

Sneakers say at seminar

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a seminar yesterday underscored the need for an integrated management of using ground water, surface water and rainwater to ensure pure drinking water for the city dwellers.
If it is possible to utilise the integrated use of water cycle in urban areas, the environmental balance and water quality can be ensured, they added.
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) organised the seminar styled "Integrated management of urban water cycle: The Singapore experience” at its office in the city.
Speaking as the chief guest, Local Government Division
Secretary Sheikh Khurshid Alam said, "Currently, we extract 80 percent ground water for supply water which is very alarming."
If Wasa takes an initiative to stop extracting ground water, the ministry will give full support in this regard, he added.
The secretary said the experience of Singapore cannot be a role model for Bangladesh. It has to be done based on the perspective of our country.
Emphasising the importance of sanitation, he said, "If we cannot improve sanitation, not only Dhaka city but also the entire country will suffer as well."
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Country Director Prof Ainun
Nishat said the government should adopt a concrete planning considering surplus population of the country and growth rate of population in Dhaka city.
"Climate change and urbanisation both should be considered regarding water supply," he added.
Wasa Managing Director Raihanul Abedin presented a paper with his experience in Singapore and recommended to carry out a feasibility study on reservoirs in Ashulia or other suitable areas.
The study should be undertaken immediately under privatepublic partnership, waste water and effluent treatment plants should be undertaken immedi-
ately to control pollution in rivers around the city.
Other recommendations include the water wells in adjacent areas of the city should be implemented immediately, construction of several surface water treatment plants to reduce dependency on ground water and dry season flow augmentation in peripheral rivers around the city.
Presided over by Dhaka Wasa Board Chairman Abdullah Harun Pasha, the seminar was addressed by Wasa Board Vice Chairman Prof M Firoz Ahmed and Institute of Water Modelling Executive Director Emdaduddin Ahmed as the special guests.