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The annual report is DWASA's; the monitoring report's cover reads 'Prepared by Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, Government of Bangladesh for the Asian Development Bank (ADB)'; the 22% and the DMA counts in The Business Standard are quoted from DWASA's deputy managing director for operation and management; and ADB's data sheet reports project monitoring of DWASA's own network.", "caveat": "A statement about provenance, not a measurement; it is what makes the evidence grade 'official'.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-9cdd76d0a4d4063d", "field": "snippet", "text": "cutting its distribution network into district metered areas - isolated zones with metered inlets, so the water entering can be compared with the water billed", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-d78622895fd7a0d8", "src-4abf857d380c7de6" ], "supportNote": "DWASA's annual report defines the unit exactly this way: 'Each DMA is a controlled network where the water balance can be assessed', created by dividing the supply network into geographically isolated areas. The ADB data sheet describes the same approach as 'establishing district metered areas (DMAs) and working to reduce the ratio of nonrevenue water in the system in each DMA'.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-c4270281d95c5665", "field": "snippet", "text": "a sector development programme approved in December 2007 rehabilitated 47 DMAs and 2,456 km of mains", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-43ef3e3f0836c597" ], "supportNote": "ADB's data sheet for Loan 2382-BAN gives approval 10 Dec 2007 and states: 'The project has rehabilitated 47 DMAs comprising 2,456 km of water distribution network and installed 106,662 numbers of house connections.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-9c81f4c07d3e351f", "field": "snippet", "text": "a follow-on loan approved in June 2016 added 85 more across seven of DWASA's ten zones", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-4abf857d380c7de6", "src-a489f4d063deab96" ], "supportNote": "The ADB data sheet for Loan 3397-BAN gives approval 24 Jun 2016 and says the ADB projects 'improved the distribution networks in 7 of the DWASAs 10 zones by establishing district metered areas (DMAs)'. The July 2025 monitoring report puts the project's own DMA total at 85: 'Resettlement plans were approved for 85 DMAs out of 85 DMAs as of June 30, 2025.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-326bfd28ae1298be", "field": "snippet", "text": "with SCADA and automated meter reading reported as implemented in all of them", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-4abf857d380c7de6", "src-d78622895fd7a0d8" ], "supportNote": "ADB's implementation-progress list for Loan 3397-BAN records under Output 2: 'SCADA system implemented in all DMAs and AMR implemented'. DWASA's own annual report says 'operation and maintenance activities are being performed with an automated SCADA system'.", "caveat": "Reported as an output achievement by the financier and by the utility; no independent inspection of coverage or of what the SCADA actually controls was found.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-15431e52930d80ae", "field": "snippet", "text": "The number of areas planned has itself moved: 164 in 2019, 145 in the utility's 2020-21 annual report, 156 by 2024", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-06fd15fc60d98064", "src-d78622895fd7a0d8", "src-2c6b1ee055f229d5" ], "supportNote": "Three figures from three moments, each attributed to DWASA: UNB in October 2019, citing an official document, 'The government initially decided to introduce 164 DMAs'; the Annual Report 2020-21 says 'the entire supply network was divided into 145 geographically isolated areas'; The Business Standard in April 2024 reports 'Out of the planned 156 DMAs, 113 have been completed'.", "caveat": "The three totals may not count exactly the same thing - the ADB-financed projects each cover a subset of zones - but each is reported as the plan for DWASA's network as a whole, and no source reconciles them.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-9c4038b316f855be", "field": "impact", "text": "Its Annual Report 2020-21 counts 70 completed DMAs in the managing director's foreword and 71 in the body", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-d78622895fd7a0d8" ], "supportNote": "Both sentences are in the same PDF. Foreword, signed Taqsem A. Khan: 'Already a total 70 number of DMAs are already completed and rest of the DMAs will be completed soon.' 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However, in 43 areas where the DMAs are not completed, the system loss is above 40%.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-aa10bb5e643cc278", "field": "impact", "text": "Even the financier's disclosed reporting is the utility's: the July 2025 report says on its own second page that it is a document of the borrower", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-a489f4d063deab96" ], "supportNote": "Page 2 of the monitoring report, the standard ADB disclaimer: 'This Social monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or Staff'. The borrower here is the Government of Bangladesh acting through DWASA, which the cover names as the preparer.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-08db56c8dd874b06", "field": "impact", "text": "No independent measurement was found", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-a489f4d063deab96", "src-2c6b1ee055f229d5" ], "supportNote": "An absence, and stated as one. This review found no audit-office, court, regulator or peer-reviewed measurement of Dhaka's water losses; the strongest external documents are the financier's supervision reports, which the reports themselves describe as documents of the borrower, and press reporting that quotes DWASA officials or reviews DWASA's own audit and annual reports (The Business Standard states it reviewed 'Dhaka Wasa's audit reports and annual reports from FY15 to FY23').", "caveat": "Established by this review rather than from a register of evaluations; a Bangladeshi Comptroller and Auditor General report on DWASA may exist without being reachable online.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-9c8ebd4b77a067f2", "field": "impact", "text": "in October 2025 DWASA formed an internal committee to determine its actual water production and system loss and to replace faulty meters at its own pumps", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-0a0e9820a8d41d9e" ], "supportNote": "Dhaka Tribune reports the office order: a committee convened by chief engineer Abdus Salam Bepary is to visit DWASA pumps to examine meter installations, replace faulty meters and determine actual water production and system loss, reporting to the managing director within 30 working days. The host returns 403 to every automated reader tried, including a Wayback replay, so no verbatim locator could be taken; the article and its content were confirmed through search results.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-902f96c7e8304949", "field": "lesson", "text": "quoting the number from inside its rebuilt areas, the utility can report a single-digit loss rate while its own operations chief puts the rate outside them above 40%", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-2c6b1ee055f229d5", "src-a489f4d063deab96" ], "supportNote": "The two halves are in the same interview: 'The systems loss in the DMA area is now below 5%. However, in 43 areas where the DMAs are not completed, the system loss is above 40%.' The single-digit figures for the metered areas also appear in DWASA's report to ADB (average 3.44%).", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-fe2807df58b086f9", "field": "lesson", "text": "three government sources in 2026 put groundwater at 66%, 70% and 77% of production", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-4d4b9f66fc60a9cc", "src-44a7076fef9b34a4", "src-1050dfc21b05c6a4" ], "supportNote": "Within four months: BSS on 11 May 2026, quoting the Planning Commission, 'At present, groundwater accounts for 66 percent of total water production, while surface water contributes the remaining 34 percent'; The Daily Star on 6 April 2026, quoting the project's focal person, demand of about 320 crore litres a day 'with 70 percent currently supplied from deep tube wells'; The Daily Star on 24 July 2026, from the Institute of Water Modelling report to Ecnec, 'Nearly 77 percent of the city's water comes from 1,388 deep tube wells'.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-516d97bebbc90eca", "field": "lesson", "text": "the water table under Dhaka is falling by two to three metres a year", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-1050dfc21b05c6a4", "src-44a7076fef9b34a4" ], "supportNote": "The Institute of Water Modelling report to Ecnec, as reported on 24 July 2026: water 'comes from 1,388 deep tube wells, causing groundwater levels to fall by 2-3 metres a year'. A former DWASA chairman gave a lower figure, about one metre a year, in April 2026.", "caveat": "Two official figures disagree: 2-3 metres a year from the Institute of Water Modelling, about one metre a year from a former DWASA chairman.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-87fefa44a991b8b4", "field": "lesson", "text": "the emergency project the government approved in 2026 to replace, regenerate and add deep tube wells carries 124 more SCADA systems with it", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-4d4b9f66fc60a9cc", "src-44a7076fef9b34a4" ], "supportNote": "BSS: 'This project has already got approval by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in its last meeting', and the works include 'supply and installation of 450 pump motor sets, 450 Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) and 124 SCADA systems', with 388 deep tube wells replaced, 62 new ones, 280 regenerated and 60 rehabilitated. The Daily Star's earlier account of the same project: 'A SCADA system will be introduced for real-time monitoring.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-4abf857d380c7de6", "title": "ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement Project, project data sheet (financier)", "url": "https://www.adb.org/projects/47254-003/main", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "adb.org", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-5176a84ba1875878", "clm-9cdd76d0a4d4063d", "clm-9c81f4c07d3e351f", "clm-326bfd28ae1298be", "clm-220d6d968fc0d834" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": "2026-04-24", "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Loan 3397-BAN, approved 24 June 2016, still active; total project cost US$408M of which ADB US$275M and government counterpart US$133M. Carries the DMA approach across 7 of DWASA's 10 zones, the output statement 'SCADA system implemented in all DMAs and AMR implemented', and non-revenue water in the handed-over DMAs 'measured at a range between 1.6% 5.8% (target: 10.0%)'. 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Carries physical losses in commissioned DMAs 'from 40% to less than 10% with the current average of 3.44%', overall physical losses and non-revenue water 'still estimated to be about 26%', the 85 DMAs of DWSNIP and 1,833 km of HDPE pipe laid to 30 June 2025 - and the disclaimer that the report 'is a document of the borrower'.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-43ef3e3f0836c597", "title": "ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program, project data sheet (financier)", "url": "https://www.adb.org/projects/39405-013/main", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "adb.org", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-c4270281d95c5665" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": "2019-09-18", "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Loan 2382-BAN, approved 10 December 2007 and closed 22 January 2020; project cost US$212M of which ADB US$150M. Records 47 DMAs rehabilitated over 2,456 km of distribution network and 106,662 house connections, and non-revenue water 'brought down from a high level of more than 50% before the project to less than 10% in most of the completed DMAs'. 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Signed by managing director Taqsem A. Khan. Gives the 145-DMA plan, 70 completed DMAs in the foreword and 71 in the body, non-revenue water inside DMAs at under 4%, 5% and 7% in three separate passages, the SCADA statement, and the Water ATM programme. 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