[ALOCHONA] A topic that needs our attention

Dear all,

I have been participating in 'Virtual adda" with all of you for many years. We passionately discuss and debate our ideas and argue about how best to improve [ Most of the time] our country and politics. Recently some friends of mine asked my help to solve a read problem in part of Dhaka. I felt real bad after learning that, large part of Badda [ An highly populated area near Gulshan] people are without water supply near about a month. Somehow the sewer  line and line for drinking water  got mixed and thousands of people are without drinking water. It is hard of many of us to imagine to live  without water supply for  even one day.  I was very upset to discover  that, Dhaka WASA has not taken any steps to "Fix" this issue. These people told me although they are not getting clean water and forced buy water at a very high price, they are forced to pay for the stinky dirty water they are getting at the same time.

I have taken time to talk to some of these people are various issues that impacts our country. Like the virtual world, we discussed ways to improve our politics, communal harmony, business etc. But how in God's name people can think about these lofty ideas when our nation fail to provide clean water to these people? I was very disturbed when I heard what they have to go through to earn a living in Dhaka. As most of you know public transportation in Dhaka is horrible. You have to spend at least 2-3 hours every day to get CNG gas and safety of Dhaka roads can compete with roads of Kabul in Afghanistan.

These people did not forget to remind me that, WASA employees forced them [ Extortion] to pay extra money when they received water connection in the first place.

We had many discussion about "Pie in the sky matters" here. I like to hear your ideas about this one. Water shortage is bound to hit us harder in the coming days.

It will be very nice if any of our members can do something to help these people. No one from the media came to talk about it yet. This can be a real opportunity for Alochona members to make a tangible contribution to people of Dhaka. Even if you know someone in the media, you can ask them to talk to these people.



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