Acute water crisis in Comilla town

  • 28/04/2008

  • New Age (Bangladesh)

Acute water crisis plagues life at different parts of the Comilla municipality due to the drastic fall in the ground water level. The residents of the town alleged they had been facing acute water crisis over the past four days while the authorities so far were yet to take proper initiative to reduce the crisis. They alleged that they were receiving scanty amount of water in the pipeline of the municipality as the authorities were supplying one-third of the total amount of water they needed. According to the Comilla municipality, they are distributing 55 to 65 lakh gallons of water everyday while the total need is 1.60 crore gallons. The residents of Chotora, Bagicha, Badurtola, Chatipotti and Bojrapur are the main victims of the crisis.