Almost 55 years after its inception, Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWasa) has taken up a sewerage treatment project for the first time as it bids to reduce pollution in the port city. Of these, 72,502 households located in the Halishahar, Agrabad, New Market, Lalkhan Bazar, Jamal Khan and Kotwali areas, will come under the sewerage treatment coverage. The project, titled “First Ever Sewerage Project of Chittagong City”, will begin in July with the approval of the government, and is slated to be completed by June 2025. “As per recommendations, CWasa has undertaken the initiative to install the first sewerage treatment plant.”‘Long overdue’ projectThis massive project includes a sewerage treatment plant, fecal sludge treatment plant, 189km-long gravity pipeline, 3,602 manholes and chambers, and various pipelines and pump stations. A by-product of sewage treatment is usually a semi-solid or slurry, called sewage sludge.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 22, 2018 09:45 UTC