Report | Dirty and polluted water supply in WASA pipeline.

Staff Reporter: Dhaka, 5 Aprill 2015: The number of people suffering from diarrhoea is increasing day by day because the water and sewerage Authority (WASA) in continuing to supply polluted water to Dhaka residents. Eighty percent of the patients at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh(I(CDDRB) reported that the drinking water supplied by WASA is foul smelling and dirty. Each day more than 800 patients seek treatment at the ICDDR,B. In the last fortnight, the number of patients being admitted each day has increased by around 30 percent. The majority of patients requiring treatment at the ICDDR,B are from the capital’s Mirpur, Khilkhet, Demra, Badda, Wireless gate, Rampura areas, as well as pagla in Narayangonj. Managing Director of WASA Taksin A. Khan has acknowledged that the water supplied by WASA is foul-smelling in many areas. Khan believes that the majority of people suffering from diarrhoea are slum dwellers that have accessed the water using illegal rubber pipelines.