Engr. Taqsem A Khan, Managing Director of Dhaka WASA and Pierre-Yves Pouliqen, Representative of Asian Development Bank (ADB), signing a contract in order to increase dependency on surface water in place of ground water to construct a Water Treatment Plant at Gandrabapur under Dhaka Environmentally Sustainable Water Supply Project (DESWSP) using water from the river Meghna funded by ADB, AFD and European Investment Bank. Marie-Annick Bourdin, Ambassador of France in Bangladesh and Manmohan Parkash, Country Director of ADB among others were also present.