AN EVALUATION OF WATER SUPPLY SCENARIO IN KHULNA CITY CORPORATION AREA

Abstract

In the urban areas of Bangladesh, service standard of community facilities lacks far behind of any recognized planning standard. Khulna City is an instance of having typical urban problems particularly the crisis of safe water. Approximately 45% population in this area is covered under piped water supply network. In this study an attempt has been made to evaluate the existing water supply system in the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) area regarding water supply installations and their capacity, water consumption pattern, satisfaction level of water supply and water demand-supply analysis. Structured and open-ended interview schedule were used as primary data collection tool. A two stage stratified random sampling was adopted and some statistical conventional techniques were used to analyze the data. The study reveals a wide gap between water supply and demand in KCC area. Again, the study shows that above 90% people use tube well (shallow and deep) water for drinking instead of supplied pipe water. It is shown that most people are not satisfied with quality and quantity of the supplied water for their daily usages. This study suggests to adopt the appropriate policy measures in order to safeguard the interest of the people for water supply, which would eventually improves the living and socio-economic conditions of the people in the study area.