Acute water crisis dogs Eskaton Garden in capital

Several thousand residents of Eskaton Garden have been facing severe water crisis for the last 10 days as the main pump of Dhaka Wasa there is under renovation to increase its capacity for over the last one week.

They have to buy water from Wasa's vehicles or fetch it from other areas.

"I do not cook or do other household works at my home…," said Reshmi Akhtar, a student of medical college.

She said she along with her sister and husband had their lunch and dinner at her mother's home.

"We bath, wash our clothes and do other works at our mother's home in Eskaton Garden," said Reshmi's sister Sanjida Akhtar, also a student of Siddheshwari Girls School.

She said her mother, who had been facing water crisis for the last couple of weeks, purchased water from the vehicles.

Chaina Begum, another resident, said as they failed to purchase water from Wasa on Tuesday, they had to fetch three buckets of water from a nearby mosque.

"My son Arman Mollik, a school student, had to collect water after he finished reading at 8:00pm," she said.

Chaina said they had been facing the problem for the last one month which became acute for the last couple of weeks.

Mohammad Shariful Islam, manager of Eskaton Gardenia apartment on Eskaton Garden Road, said 26 flats of the apartment were facing the problem for the last 10 days and the residents had to purchase five to six vehicles of water  on a daily basis.

He said there were

around 1,000 families in different apartments and buildings in the area.

Mohammad Shajahan, site manager of Associate Engineer and Drillers whom Wasa hired to repair the pump, said the pump would be renovated by Saturday.

Delowar Hossain, the pump operator, said the capacity of the pump reduced to 50 percent around two months ago for which a part of the residents was not getting sufficient water.

Meanwhile, similar crisis is prevailing on the weekly 2000 lane as the pipeline will have to be reset, Delowar said.

A high official of Wasa said new pipes would replace the old ones there under a project.