Bangladesh, April 29 -- A comment by the managing director (MD) of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority has fuelled ire of the residents of the city. His claim that water supplied by the WASA is fit for drinking -in his own words '100 per cent drinkable'-did not go well with the city's residents. Now, the claim was apparently aimed at refuting the Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) report that Dhaka residents have to spend a staggering sum of Tk 3.32 billion on boiling water annually. According to the TIB study, the volume of gas burnt to boil water is worth this amount.
When asked by newsmen if he drinks tap water, the MD emphatically declares that he drinks three types of water -tap water, boiled water and, when on the...