GLOBALink | China-funded green sewage treatment plant boon for millions in Dhaka

Updated: August 27, 2022 Source: Xinhua News Agency

For millions of dwellers in Aftab Nagar area on the eastern side of the Bangladeshi capital, it is like a dream come true with a China-funded green sewage treatment plant, the largest in South Asia, is in operation since April.

DHAKA, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- For millions of dwellers in Aftab Nagar area on the eastern side of the Bangladeshi capital, it is like a dream come true with a China-funded green sewage treatment plant, the largest in South Asia, is in operation since April.

It took HydroChina Corporation, the contractor, less than four years to complete the project, which features green technology that aims to minimize human impact on the natural environment.

The project director engineer, Md Mohosain Ali Miah from Dhaka WASA, the executing agency of the project funded by the Export-Import Bank of China, earlier told Xinhua that the project includes a sewage lifting station, sewage conveyance pipeline, and a sewage treatment plant with a sewage treatment capacity of 500,000 cubic meters per day.

Aerial photo taken on Aug. 16, 2022 shows the China-funded Dasherkandi Sewage Treatment Plant in Dhaka, Bangladesh.(Xinhua)

Aerial photo taken on Aug. 24, 2022 shows the China-funded Dasherkandi Sewage Treatment Plant in Dhaka, Bangladesh.(Xinhua)

Aerial photo taken on Aug. 16, 2022 shows the China-funded Dasherkandi Sewage Treatment Plant in Dhaka, Bangladesh.(Xinhua)

Editor: Duan Jing

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