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STUDIES ON WASTE WATER SYSTEM PROBLEMS FOR DEVELOPING A TECHNICAL MEDIATOR TREATMENT MODEL IN DHAKA CITY CORPORATION (Pages : 10 - 16)

Studies were conducted on waste water system problems for developing a technical treatment model in Dhaka City Corporation identifying the causes and residents need absorbing the present unchangeable parameters considering the habitants environmental safety. The sites were Old Dhaka- Lalbag, Mid Dhaka-Mohammadpur, and New Dhaka-Uttara. The respondents were residents and staff. The major parameters of data were house and slum designs, tank sizes, line slopes, infrastructures and colony integrations. The results study show that among the major problems studied 56% and 22% of the respondent as per cause and groups prioritized wrong system planning structural inadequacy respectively, which caused total inactivation of the system. It led to the needs for developing a model for waste water treatment at the community level. The results also reveal that the user group and the field staff of WASA responded to these points very significantly. According to them only 55% of the poor get tap water and none of the slums get sewerage services and 9% of this get solid waste management services. Unsanitary lifestyle, inadequate access to safe drinking water, increased health risks, continuous growth of slum population, limitation of resources were reported by the most beneficiaries of the township. The residents as a group gave significantly higher response for developing these model to solve the problems. The present services show conventional water borne sewerage system (30%), separate sewerage system (20%), septic tank (11%) and pit sanitation (18%). It also indicate the need for establishing community safety tanks for more decomposition of the wastes of the water.Download