Jakir Hossain, a resident of Shahjalalbagh of South Dania, has been worried about his four-and-half-year-old daughter who contracted typhoid several months back.

Jurain resident Mizanur Rahman, who came under the spotlight following a unique protest against murky Wasa water on Tuesday, alleged that Wasa officials misbehaved with his family members when they went to his residence to collect water samples yesterday.

Authorities at state-run water supply company Wasa say that its supply water gets polluted in the pipelines before reaching the consumer level.

It will take Dhaka Wasa a few more years to complete the third phase of the surface water treatment plant in Sayedabad because of the delay in construction of a pipeline.

Dhaka Wasa managing director yesterday boasted that Wasa water “is 100 percent pure” while also admitting that sometimes he himself boils the water at his home.

Nearly 45 percent service seekers in the capital don’t get the desired amount of water from Dhaka Wasa, Transparency International Bangladesh said yesterday citing its survey.

A parliamentary body asks the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to set up necessary number of water hydrants in the capital city to fight fire accident.