Protests against insufficient supply of water continued in different neighbourhoods of the capital as locals at Rampura, where people were experiencing an acute crisis of water for about a week, blocked Rampura-Baridhaka road on Thursday morning.
They demanded sufficient supply of water during Ramadan.
Residents of West Rampura and Ulun are experiencing acute crisis of water and queues are seen round the clock in front of the local water pump on WAPDA Road, locals said.
Thursday's road blockade for about half-an-hour caused severe traffic congestion in Rampura Bazar area, witnesses said.
Dhaka WASA managing director Mohammad Taqsem A Khan said frequent power outages were responsible for the crisis in water supply as the pumps remained inoperative for long hours.
He denied the crisis was acute saying that only a few out of nearly 200 pumps operating in the city might be facing the problem.
Taqsem A Khan said at present 590 deep tube-wells and four water purification plants were producing about 220 crore litres of water everyday against a demand for about 250 crore litres.
The Dhaka WASA has 233 permanent generators and 60 mobile generators to run the pumps in case of power failures. A source in DWASA said the generators operate for 750 hours everyday.
Residents of areas like Rampura, Banasree, Badda, Dhanmondi, Mohammadpur, Moghbazar, Shantinagar, Mugdapara, Kalabagan, Green Road, Farmgate, Shaymoli, Gulshan, Gulbagh, Lalbagh, Kamalbagh, Islambagh, Nayabagh and parts of Mirpur said they were experiencing an acute water crisis in sweltering heat.
Habiba Rahman, a housewife of Mohammadpur Shekhertake neighbourhood, said there was no water supply at her house for five days at a stretch.
'For three days we did not get a single drop of water and from the fourth day the house owner supplied us WASA water but demanded money for that,' she added.
Rampura resident Shipan said life had become miserable due to water crisis in summer.
Source : New Age
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