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New Era in Rural Water
Supply in Bangladesh
Piped Water Supply System launched at
Duptara Village
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Rural women used to collect safe water from
distant wells/Rivers |
Duptara village of
Narayanganj District came under Rural Piped Water Supply
System. The launching ceremony was held at Duptara on 17
February 2006. Local parliament member, Project Director of
BAMWSP, DPHE officials, project officials, local elites were
present in the launching ceremony.
The system is implementing
by an sponsor "Hilful Fujul Samaj Kallyan Sanstha (HFSKS)"
with the assistance from World Bank funded Bangladesh
Arsenic Mitigation Water Supply Project (BAMWSP). The World
bank provided 50% grant assistance, the community
contributed 12% and rest invested by the sponsor. The
sponsor will operate the system for 10-12 years and then it
will be handed over to the community representatives.
The system providing safe
water through pipeline to 1113 households; of them 25% are
poor households, 35% are medium income households and 40%
are rich households.
The system consists of an
overhead tank of 60m3 capacity,
11,536m pipe network, 390 multi-tap connections, 445 single
tap connection, 93 shared connections. Estimated daily
production is 400 m3 from one production well.
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A rural women collecting safe water at her
doorstep in the village of Duptara |
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BWSPP Launched
Bangladesh Water Supply Program Project has taken off with
lot of activities on board with the target of implementing
300 rural piped water schemes, expansion and renovation of
5 pourashavas water supply systems and installation of 2000
point source at 200 villages.
BWSPP launching ceremony was held in a befitting manner in
hotel Sheraton on 4 June, 05 with hon'ble Minister for LGRD
& Cooperatives Mr. Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, M P as the chief
guest. The launching workshop of BWSPP was held during 4 -
6 June, 05 at Elenga Resort, Tangail with about 80 participants
from DPHE, Project Management Unit, World Bank Mission, Chairmen
of 5 Pourashava and other stakeholders. All the aspects of
the project implementation were elaborately discussed in this
workshop. Series of internal communication workshops at DPHE
Circle and Pourashava level has also been held with great
enthusiasm among the stakeholders.
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Internal
Communication Workshops at 09 DPHE Circle
For proper and efficient implementation of BWSPP, the PMU
organized a daylong workshop at each circle level of DPHE.
Nine workshops were held at Dhaka, Chittagong (Comilla), Rajshahi,
Khulna, Barisal Faridpur, Sylhet Rangpur and Chittagong Hill
tracts ( Rangamati) circle . The day-long workshops were attended
by all DPHE officials at the circle level.
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Workshops at 05 Selected pourashavas
Under the project component
2, the existing water supply system of Chandpur, Manikganj,
Bagerhat, Chuadanga and Chapainawabganj will be expanded.
Project Management Unit has arranged briefing meetings with
the Porashava Chairman, Commissioners and Local DPHE officials.
The meetings discussed different aspects of expansion of water
supply system and the project modality
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Briefing
to the Selected Sponsors on Rural Piped Water Supply Schemes
300 Rural Piped Water Supply Schemes would be implemented
through the private sponsors (NGO's & firms) under Component
-1. Ninety Seven sponsors have been selected through open
advertisement to act as Sponsors under BWSPP. Two briefing
sessions were held at DPHE auditorium on 20th & 21st November,
05. Representatives from the sponsors were present and the
project officials presented different aspects of Rural Piped
Water Supply Schemes and answered the queries of the sponsors.
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