Performance Assessment of Present Water Supply System of Ward No. 24 of Rajshahi City Corporation for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Rajshahi called the "silk city," is a major industrial focal point of the north-west divisional region, including slum dwellers and underdeveloped people. Since it is a prominent metropolitan city, the Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (RWASA) promotes on-site sanitation systems even though any substantially well-planned, efficient, and upgraded version of the sewerage system has not been ameliorated yet. Due to adverse trends, the water supply system will face the problem of providing enough high-quality water for drinking as well as for domestic and emergency purposes to meet the requirements of consumers by the end of the twenty-first century. People who are unable to afford their water abstraction system and reservoir facilities have to depend on the municipality water supply system where the quality of water, availability of water, sources for different consumption, maintenance, and operations are unsatisfactory for the consumers. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare total water availability, source of water for drinking and residential water consumption, quality of water, after-collection measures, maintenance, and cost with the satisfaction level of consumers in different periods of the day in the study area ward no. 24 among the entire 30 wards of Rajshahi City Corporation. The methodology is based on gathering and analyzing data through a questionnaire survey of water consumption, available resources, and technical indicators of different sources of water with consumer reaction. The results show the effects of different sources of water availability and the consumption of water by the increasing number of users which gradually decrease due to some unsatisfactory facts of the present system of water supply and consumers have an unsatisfied reaction to this system. Based on the findings of the study, the authority can make plans for the water supply system in the study area and achieve future sustainable development by achieving SDG 6.