Government and foreign missions officials on Wednesday gave importance on using surface water to reduce pressure on groundwater.
They made the observation while visiting the Saidabad Water Treatment Plant Phase II project in the capital.
Dhaka WASA managing director Taqsem A Khan said Saidabad project phase II started in April 15, 2010 which would be finished in December 2012.
'This phase will have a pre-treatment plant which will be producing water during the dry season to remove bad smell in the water as surface water goes down during the season,' he said.
Taqsem A Khan said through this project WASA would go to use the surface water which would be a great achievement.
Danish ambassador Svend Olling said the people of the Dhaka city must go for the surface water which should be properly treated.
Citing Saidabad plant as 'one of the biggest water treatment plant', he also said engineers from France and Denmark came here because of strong political support.
French ambassador Charley Causeret said the second phase was very impressive and much better than the first phase and added that Denmark and France were happy to participate in the project.
The project manager, Jon W Moellebro, said at present the construction work of the project was completed between five to ten per cent and expressed confidence that the work would be completed in time.
Martial Dautrey, another project manager, said the same treatment process, which was used in the first phase, would be followed in the second phase.
DWASA managing director said the Denmark government gave about Tk 800 crore out of about Tk 1,140 crore for the project's expenditure.
'We are only a little behind meeting the daily demand of 225 crore litres and if the project is implemented that would also produce more 22.5 crore litres of water daily,' he added.
Taqsem A Khan said water of the River Sitalakhya would be used in the second phase.
Land requisition for the third phase of the project had already been done and a project of $1.6 billion was under consideration while planning of two other water treatment plants at Pagla and Khilkhet was also in progress, he added.
Among others, project director of Saidabad plant's phase II and III Mohammad Serajuddin and Danish embassy's deputy head of mission Jan Moller Hansen were present at the plant.
Source : New Age
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