Construction of the Gandharbpur Water Treatment Plant

ongoing

In this context, the public body responsible for water supply in the city – Dhaka WASA - has been nurturing an ambition: extracting water directly from the rivers ringing the city. It is precisely this purpose that attempts to serve the Dhaka Environmentally Sustainable Water Supply Project (DESWSP), funded by AFD, the Asian Development Bank and the European Investment Bank.This project will principally consist in the construction a water treatment plant in Gandharbpur. The capacity of the plant will reach 500,000m3/day, and could be later double during a second phase. Given the fact that the rivers flowing at the vicinity of Dhaka – such as the Buriganga, the Shitalakha, the Dhaleswari, etc. - are all highly polluted, the plant will extract raw water from the Meghna River, situated some 30km off Dhaka. This arrangement will require a high technical expertise.