Sylhet Correspondent :
At last the much talked about water treatment project is going to be formally opened in January 2016, officials informed.
The Tk 1320 million project will ensure supply of additional 28 million litre water everyday, official sources informed. The facility will benefit the inhabitants on the 125 square kilometre area in the Sylhet city and around.
Against the daily demand for 80 million litres, the Sylhet city Corporation (SCC) supplies about 30 million litres through its 30 production wells and an old water treatment plant, official sources informed, it is only 30 per cent of the demand. The deficit demand is still a matter of concern, they admitted.
But, the subscribers’ negligence and misuse has been wasting about 25 per cent of the supplied water, an official said we have started setting metres on the subscriber’s connections. Already some 500 metres had been set, an official added.
Most of the city dwellers have been suffering badly as the authority failed to supply even fifty per cent of the demand for drinking water. However, about 25 per cent of the supplied water is also being misused by the subscribers, the officials alleged.
SCC chief engineer Nur Azizur Rahman said “We would set the metres on the connections for reducing the wastage by the subscribers”.
The new water treatment plant would be inaugurated in January, he said and added it would help up raising the supply.
He admitted delay in the implementation of the much desired project. The project had to be revised several times while allocation of sanctioned funds was also deferred on occasions, sources alleged as the main reasons for it.
However, a number of subscribers alleged corruption and mismanagement at the water supply section of the SCC, has been causing much. On the other hand, subscribers in many areas in the city had been deprived of getting minimum water through the existing supply lines. Even many subscribers had stopped paying their water bills.
On the other hand, the SCC has been arranging payment of water bill through mobile banking. Initially more than one third subscribers out of 13300 will get the facility. An official informed, all the subscribers will be included as soon as possible.
At last the much talked about water treatment project is going to be formally opened in January 2016, officials informed.
The Tk 1320 million project will ensure supply of additional 28 million litre water everyday, official sources informed. The facility will benefit the inhabitants on the 125 square kilometre area in the Sylhet city and around.
Against the daily demand for 80 million litres, the Sylhet city Corporation (SCC) supplies about 30 million litres through its 30 production wells and an old water treatment plant, official sources informed, it is only 30 per cent of the demand. The deficit demand is still a matter of concern, they admitted.
But, the subscribers’ negligence and misuse has been wasting about 25 per cent of the supplied water, an official said we have started setting metres on the subscriber’s connections. Already some 500 metres had been set, an official added.
Most of the city dwellers have been suffering badly as the authority failed to supply even fifty per cent of the demand for drinking water. However, about 25 per cent of the supplied water is also being misused by the subscribers, the officials alleged.
SCC chief engineer Nur Azizur Rahman said “We would set the metres on the connections for reducing the wastage by the subscribers”.
The new water treatment plant would be inaugurated in January, he said and added it would help up raising the supply.
He admitted delay in the implementation of the much desired project. The project had to be revised several times while allocation of sanctioned funds was also deferred on occasions, sources alleged as the main reasons for it.
However, a number of subscribers alleged corruption and mismanagement at the water supply section of the SCC, has been causing much. On the other hand, subscribers in many areas in the city had been deprived of getting minimum water through the existing supply lines. Even many subscribers had stopped paying their water bills.
On the other hand, the SCC has been arranging payment of water bill through mobile banking. Initially more than one third subscribers out of 13300 will get the facility. An official informed, all the subscribers will be included as soon as possible.
