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Article: Ground Water Level Falls Rapidly in Dhaka
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 29, 2000
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Water level in Dhaka city and its suburban areas is falling
rapidly due to massive extraction of underground water by Dhaka
Water Supply and Sewerage Authority ( WASA)through hundreds of deep
tube wells daily for the growing population.
Ignoring the warning of environment and soil science experts,
Dhaka WASA has continued to extract the underground water, resulting
in the fall of water level by 24 meters till 1996 from the
acceptable level, The Bangladesh Observer reported here Wednesday.
The water level will drop by 36 meters by the year 2010 if the
extraction continues at the existing rate, soil scientists said.
A WASA report on "Static Water Level Measures" also admitted that
the water ...