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Double blow for people

Power, water crises add to their woes

Staff Correspondent
City dwellers had to deal with • intermittent power supply : and water crisis indoors yesterday as if the waterlogged streets were not enough to go through in a day.
Residents of Farmgate, Dhanmondi, Kalabagan, Moghbazar, Malibagh, Shahbagh, Mohammadpur, Rampura, Goran, Khilgaon, Shahjahanpur, Uttara and other places in the capital experienced frequent power cuts each lasting more than an hour.
Residents of different sections of Mirpur, Kafrul, Kazipara and Shewrapara were worst affected by a single power cut that lasted over 12 hours.
"The lights went out around three in the morning and the supply resumed at 4:00pm today [yesterday]," said a resident of Kazipara.
"We had to collect water from the reservoir," he said yesterday afternoon, adding, "We fear our food stored in the refrigerator has gone bad. we are waiting a while before we open it."
Many ground-floor garages of buildings in the capital were inundated, damaging a large number of parked vehicles.
Many buildings could not pump water to their tanks on the roofs while several buildings' basement water tank got contaminated by stagnant water of the streets.
The residents of those buildings had to rely on bottled water.
"There was no water left in the water tank as we could not pump up water from the reservoir due to the power outage. I managed only three buckets of water for the very basic needs." said Raihan Kaiser, a resident of Mirpur-11 "We could not even bathe," he added.
Omar Faruq, a resident of Tallabagh, said sewage water contaminated their reservoir.
Officials of Dhaka Power Distribution Company and Dhaka Electric Supply Company Ltd said the regular load shedding coupled with the heavy downpour caused outages in different places in the capita).
They said electricity supply system tripped in many areas during the downpour. They blamed poor electricity generation as well.
They claimed that power had been restored in many areas since morning
Around l,400MW of power was supplied to the capital against an approximate demand of 1.700MW during peak hours, they claimed