BANGLADESH

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to open South Asia’s largest single sewage plant in Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the South Asia’s largest single sewage treatment plant (STP) with the capacity of treating five million sewage every day in the city’s Khilgaon area on Thursday July 13. It would save the rivers surrounding Dhaka from pollution.

Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Managing Director Taqsem A Khan said, “The Prime Minister will formally commission operation of the Dasherkandi Sewage Treatment Plant in Dhaka, first of its kind in the country on Thursday.

During talking to the journalists about the plant at its office site in Dhaka’s Aftabnagar, Taqsem said that the plant has the capacity of treating five million metric tonnes of sewage every day.  It is 20 to 25 per cent of the total sewage, weighing 2000 million metric tonnes in Dhaka city.

He also said WASA will build four more sewage treatment plants, one each in Pagla, Uttara, Rayerbazar and Mirpur areas in accordance with a master plan to treat 100 percent sewage of Dhaka by 2030. And 90 percent of which through pipeline coverage and remaining 10 percent collecting from houses. The plant helps implementing Sustainable Development Goal/ SDG 6 to ensure better waste management system across the country by 2030. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the pioneer of bringing the country under a proper waste management system.

He added that such kind of single sewage treatment plant is nowhere in the South Asia and it is the largest one in the region. This is the best one. The plant is environment- friendly, sustainable and people- friendly. Treated water from sewage is falling into the water of Balu river which increases the quality of the river water is good and drinkable. It is okay to drink the water by treating that further. The Padma and Sayedabad Treatment plants have been made fully automated.

During the press briefing, project director Md Mohsin Ali Miah and Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary Hasan Jahid Tusher were present.

 

 

 

 

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