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Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (RWASA) has a plan for implementing a project aiming at improving public health and livelihood conditions of urban people through strengthening water supply networks, officials said.
The project titled "Improvement of Water Supply Network with District Metering System" will be implemented with an estimated cost of around Tk 900 crore to remove the existing water supply-related problems.
Under the project, seven pump houses will be constructed with replacement of 30 production tube wells and regeneration of another 80 production tube-wells, said RWASA Chief Engineer Parvej Mamud.
Apart from this, 95-kilometre pipelines of different diameters will be installed, while another 38-kilometre will be replaced and 600 washouts will be installed for supplying pump motors to 60 production tube wells. Besides, 133-kilometre roads will be renovated.
The project has also provision of supplying 12 pump motors to the Shyampur Water Purification Plant together with re-excavating its ponds and replacing the filter and dousing system.
Engineer Mamud said the project is intended to reconstruct and renovate the existing water supply infrastructures to meet the gradually mounting water demands in the interim period until building a modern water supply system in Rajshahi city through construction of a surface water treatment plant by 2024.
"So far, we have brought 84 per cent of Rajshahi city's total 5.52 lakh populations under the water supply coverage," said RWASA Managing Director Zakir Hossain.
Currently, 9.5-crore litres of water is being supplied to 44,894 consumers through 103 production pumps in all 30 wards of Rajshahi City Corporation daily against the total demand of 11.33 crore litres.
There are 712.50-kilometre pipelines to distribute the extracted water.
"We have also completed the feasibility study on the Surface Water Treatment Plant in Rajshahi WASA at a cost of around Tk 1.89 crore," added Hossain.
Meanwhile, a Tk 4,150-crore mega project titled "RWASA Surface water Treatment" is in the implementation stage at present for building a modern water supply system in Rajshahi city through construction of surface water treatment plant by 2024.
The project has been adopted to supply fresh drinking water under a 40-year water supply management master plan.
Under the project, 26.5-kilometre main pipelines as well as 48-kilometre primary and secondary pipelines would be installed for ensuring a strong water supply network.
Water from the Padma River will be supplied to households for drinking purposes after necessary treatment.
The surface water-based plant with capacity of treating 20-crore litre water daily will be installed at Farhadpour, 26.5 kilometres west from the city centre under Godagari upazila by June 2022.
From this water purification plant, fresh drinking water will be provided for all 30 wards in Rajshahi City Corporation and its surrounding areas as well as 11 wards of Katakhali and Naohata municipal areas.
Zakir Hossain said the RWASA has persistently been working with the vision of establishing a sustainable and smart water management system through ensuring transparency, accountability, integrity and participation of all stakeholders.
