Making lemonade with Dhaka WASA water and serving it to WASA staffers was a drama - claimed the WASA Managing Director Taqsem A Khan. He also termed the protestor Mizanur Rahman 'mentally imbalanced'.
A family from Dhaka's Jurain came to the WASA office on Tuesday to offer lemonade made from water supplied by the utility to its MD Taqsem A Khan. The WASA boss, however, declined drinking lemonade made by someone else.
A day after the unique protest which create a firestorm in social media, Khan talked to the media yesterday. "It was a total drama," said Khan claiming: "Water supply to their residence is fine. They were claiming water crisis since last 10 years. But our officials went there and tested the water."
The WASA boss also claimed the officials wanted to know the address of Mizanur's residence. "We send technicians upon complaints. He was not willing to disclose his residence address." "He once said water supply to Jurain is poor. Then claimed the supply to whole Dhaka is bad. Later the officials insisted and collected his address," Khan went on claiming the holding address was 'wrong'.
Meantime, the protestor discarded the claim saying the WASA officials misbehaved with him and his family. "I stay with my mother and gave the address. But they appeared at my wife's apartment instead of reaching me. I was not at there and they blackmailed her. They took video," said Mizanur Rahman.
"This is my locality and I'm a citizen of the country. I'm a subscriber of WASA. They did misbehave and their attitude was too rough," he alleged.
TIB on Apr 17 said in a report that at least 91 percent households in Dhaka burn 363.7 million cubic meters of gas worth Tk 3.32 billion annually in order to boil the water supplied by the WASA before drinking it.
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