United News of Bangladesh

Dhaka, Oct 24 (UNB) - District Metered Area (DMA), a monitoring system, has helped Dhaka Wasa significantly cut its system loss and become self-sufficient in supplying water to city dwellers.   Dhaka Wasa’s current production capacity is 255 crore litres a day against the daily demand of 220-240 crore litres.   An official document says the overall system loss in areas covered by Dhaka Wasa is 20 percent. The introduction of DMA has cut the system loss by up to 35 percent.   Before the DMA was introduced, the system loss in the areas was 40 percent, the document shows. The government initially decided to introduce 164 DMAs. Of them, the process to introduce 62 DMAs has been completed while 10 more are in the pipeline.