Chittagong Bureau :
Chittagong Water and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) has taken various steps to ensure uninterrupted water supply to the city dwellers during the holy Ramadan.
To ensure smooth water supply during the Ramadan, the CWASA has already set up three deep tube wells with a daily production capacity of two million litres of water side by side repairing eight inoperative ones.
Besides, the CWASA authority has also decided to open control rooms, form vigilance teams and supply free water in different slum areas in the city.
Currently CWASA produces 19 crore litres of water per day against the daily demand of 55 crore litres which is too insufficient in meeting the growing demands of nearly 60 lakh city dwellers for domestic, commercial and industrial consumption, a top official of CWASA told BSS.
CWASA covers only 160 square kilometres of the city, supplying water to the inhabitants by rotation leaving nearly two-thirds of the entire city out of the supply.
CWASA Managing Director Engineer AKM Fazlullah told BSS that they have formed three vigilance teams to monitor different establishments of the CWASA during the month of Ramadan.
Keeping this under consideration, three vigilance teams has continued works and visited different slum area to mitigate the sufferings of the people, he added.
“Moreover we have kept our teams ready for providing immediate solution to the water supply problems at any place”, he added.
He sought for public cooperation to cope up with the water crisis.
