The Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority on Wednesday signed a contract under Karnaphuli Water Supply Project with two Chinese construction firms to build a new water supply plant at a cost of Tk 1510 crore.
The project includes intake facility and treatment plant, transmission and distribution pipelines reservoirs.
CWASA officials signed the contract with China National Technical
IT IS a poignant pointer on the general apathy of the ruling class, irrespective of their partisan affiliation, to the environment and ecology that the highest judiciary needs to come forward with rulings, sometimes suo motto and in response to public interest writ petition, asking the government to prevent degradation of the environment and destruction of the ecology.
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is going to set up boundary wall around the Pagla Sewage Treatment Plant to stop illegal fish farming in the toxic lagoons, senior officials said.
Like almost every year, the authorities also carried out a drive this year in May to kill the fishes reared illegally in 16 lagoons of the sewage treatment plant by locally influential people, they added.
Infrastructure Development Company Limited, the state-owned financial institution, is set to install 2,000 solar PV-based mini-grid power plants in the off-grid areas of the country.
