| Author | Acharya, Shyamal |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.WM-15-09 |
| Subject(s) | Water-supply--Evaluation--Bangladesh--Chittagong
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Engineering in Water Engineering and Management |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. WM-15-09 |
| Abstract | Water is the most essential element of physical environment. City dwellers are generally getting water supply services by an authority and it is supplied with piped supply system. Depending on the management and governance strength or activi ties, utility services could be satisfactory with good or improved in quality. Also, while producing and distributing water to the consumers, energy requirements associated with volume of water is a matter of consideration. Again, most of the water supply provider in the least developed countries still supplying intermittent supply system of water, which is truly contamination prone for distributed waters. In Chittagong city, Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) are responsible for supplyi ng water to the city dwellers. The management practices those are being followed by them and performance indicators (PIs) which indicate the level of services of CWASA to the city dwellers as the water supply service providers are analyzed with the seconda ry data collected from the CWASA office for the year 2003 to 2013. Finally, PIs are compared with the data from some others Asian cities. Two pilot study areas are evaluated with socio - economic status, water use and energy use with economic level by questi onnaire survey and secondary data from CWASA office. Primary data as water samples are collected from two pilot study areas and tested at CUET and CWASA water testing laboratory to compare the physical, chemical and biological quality. The result of this r esearch study shows that CWASA management practices as the water supply providers are not good. The values are also compared or benchmarked with the values of some other Asian cities for the period of 2007 to 2013, where it shows that the performance indic ators are the worst among them. The research concluded that the performance of CWASA have not improved rather deteriorated with the passage of time of last 11 years. |
| Year | 2015 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. WM-15-09 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Water Engineering and Management (WM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Babel, Mukand Singh |
| Examination Committee(s) | Shrestha, Sangam;Jourdain, Damien |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Nuffic NICHE Program, the Netherlands |
| Degree | Thesis (M. Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2015 |