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Dhaka WASA District Metered Areas and SCADA

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Dhaka's water utility has spent nearly two decades cutting its distribution network into district metered areas - isolated zones with metered inlets, so the water entering can be compared with the water billed. Two Asian Development Bank projects paid for it: a sector development programme approved in December 2007 rehabilitated 47 DMAs and 2,456 km of mains, and a follow-on loan approved in June 2016 added 85 more across seven of DWASA's ten zones, with SCADA and automated meter reading reported as implemented in all of them. The number of areas planned has itself moved: 164 in 2019, 145 in the utility's 2020-21 annual report, 156 by 2024.

Live 📅 since 2007
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byDhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA)
Scale🏙️ City-wide
Cost~US$212M (ADB Loan 2382-BAN) and ~US$408M (Loan 3397-BAN), total project costs
FundingADB loans (US$150M and US$275M) with Government of Bangladesh counterpart funding

📊 Impact

Every figure in the argument is DWASA's own. Its Annual Report 2020-21 counts 70 completed DMAs in the managing director's foreword and 71 in the body, and puts non-revenue water inside them at under 4%, at 5% and at 7% in three different passages. DWASA's July 2025 monitoring report for ADB records physical losses in commissioned DMAs down from 40% to an average of 3.44%, while overall physical losses and non-revenue water are still estimated at about 26%; ADB's project data sheet gives 1.6-5.8% in the handed-over areas. In April 2024 the deputy managing director for operations told The Business Standard that 113 of 156 DMAs were finished, that overall system loss was 22%, below 5% inside the DMAs and above 40% in the 43 areas without them. 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. No independent measurement was found, and 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.

🎓 Lesson

The district is the unit of measurement and the unit of the claim at once: 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%. Nothing outside DWASA settles which figure describes Dhaka, and the official numbers do not agree with one another - three government sources in 2026 put groundwater at 66%, 70% and 77% of production. That reading is the one that matters, because the water table under Dhaka is falling by two to three metres a year, and the emergency project the government approved in 2026 to replace, regenerate and add deep tube wells carries 124 more SCADA systems with it.

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Sources

↗ ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement Project, project data sheet (financier)Updated 24 April 2026Loan 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%)'. Blocks WebFetch (403); read with a browser user-agent.
↗ DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)Published July 2025Semestral report for January-June 2025, cover-dated July 2025, prepared by DWASA for ADB. 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'.
↗ ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program, project data sheet (financier)Updated 18 September 2019Loan 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'. Blocks WebFetch (403); read with a browser user-agent.
↗ Dhaka WASA - Annual Report 2020-21 (operator)DWASA's own annual report, cover title 'Vision to Turn Around: Go Green and Go Digital - Annual Report 2020-21'. 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. The copy on dwasa.portal.gov.bd serves a self-signed certificate and returns 503 to automated readers; this government object-storage copy of the same document is readable.
↗ The Business Standard - Wasa suffers water bill loss, consumers made to pay (press)Published 26 April 2024Carries deputy managing director (operation and management) AKM Shahid Uddin on 22% overall system loss, 113 of a planned 156 DMAs completed, below 5% inside DMAs and above 40% in the 43 areas without them; also reports the paper's own review of DWASA audit and annual reports FY15-FY23.
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↗ Dhaka Tribune - Wasa forms body to assess water production, system loss (press)Reports that DWASA formed a committee under chief engineer Abdus Salam Bepary to determine actual water production and system loss, visiting pumps to examine meter installations and replace faulty meters, reporting to the managing director within 30 working days. The host returns 403 to every automated reader tried, including a Wayback replay; existence and content confirmed through search results only, so no publication date is recorded here.
↗ United News of Bangladesh - DMA helping Dhaka Wasa curb system loss (press)Published 24 October 2019The earliest of the DMA counts used here: 'The government initially decided to introduce 164 DMAs. Of them, the process to introduce 62 DMAs has been completed', with overall system loss then at 20 percent, all attributed to an official document.
↗ The Daily Star - Dhaka Wasa turns to groundwater despite unfinished projects (press)Published 6 April 2026The Tk 920.85 crore Emergency Water Supply in Dhaka City project as it went to Ecnec: 'A SCADA system will be introduced for real-time monitoring.' Also project focal person Abdul Majid on demand of about 320 crore litres a day 'with 70 percent currently supplied from deep tube wells', former Wasa chairman Ghulam Mostafa on a water table 'falling by about one metre each year', and Gandharbpur Phase 1 about 50% and Saidabad Phase 3 about 20% complete.
↗ Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha - Govt launches Tk 920.85cr emergency water supply project in Dhaka (state news agency)Published 11 May 2026State news agency on the same project after approval: 'This project has already got approval by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in its last meeting', 450 pump motor sets, 450 variable frequency drives and 124 SCADA systems, 388 deep tube wells replaced, 280 regenerated and 60 rehabilitated over 361 square kilometres of DNCC and DSCC. Gives DWASA production of about 2,977 MLD and groundwater at 66 percent of total water production against 34 percent surface water.
↗ The Daily Star - Tk 32,554cr plan for Dhaka's water future (press)Published 24 July 2026Institute of Water Modelling report presented to Ecnec: Dhaka needs about 3.13 billion litres a day against DWASA production of about 3.0 billion, and 'Nearly 77 percent of the city's water comes from 1,388 deep tube wells, causing groundwater levels to fall by 2-3 metres a year.'

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2007. 6 of 10 sources carry a publication date, from 24 October 2019 to 24 July 2026.

When the sources were published

  1. United News of Bangladesh - DMA helping Dhaka Wasa curb system loss (press)
  2. The Business Standard - Wasa suffers water bill loss, consumers made to pay (press)
  3. DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)
  4. The Daily Star - Dhaka Wasa turns to groundwater despite unfinished projects (press)
  5. Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha - Govt launches Tk 920.85cr emergency water supply project in Dhaka (state news agency)
  6. The Daily Star - Tk 32,554cr plan for Dhaka's water future (press)

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Claim 1 clm-5176a84ba1875878 descriptive
Every figure in the argument is DWASA's own
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Each source of a loss figure traces back to the utility. 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'.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)
  2. Dhaka WASA - Annual Report 2020-21 (operator)
  3. The Business Standard - Wasa suffers water bill loss, consumers made to pay (press)
  4. ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement Project, project data sheet (financier)
Claim 2 clm-9cdd76d0a4d4063d descriptive
cutting its distribution network into district metered areas - isolated zones with metered inlets, so the water entering can be compared with the water billed
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
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
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dhaka WASA - Annual Report 2020-21 (operator)
  2. ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement Project, project data sheet (financier)
Claim 3 clm-c4270281d95c5665 quantitative
a sector development programme approved in December 2007 rehabilitated 47 DMAs and 2,456 km of mains
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
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
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program, project data sheet (financier)
Claim 4 clm-9c81f4c07d3e351f quantitative
a follow-on loan approved in June 2016 added 85 more across seven of DWASA's ten zones
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
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
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement Project, project data sheet (financier)
  2. DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)
Claim 5 clm-326bfd28ae1298be descriptive
with SCADA and automated meter reading reported as implemented in all of them
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
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.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement Project, project data sheet (financier)
  2. Dhaka WASA - Annual Report 2020-21 (operator)
Claim 6 clm-15431e52930d80ae quantitative
The number of areas planned has itself moved: 164 in 2019, 145 in the utility's 2020-21 annual report, 156 by 2024
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
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.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. United News of Bangladesh - DMA helping Dhaka Wasa curb system loss (press)
  2. Dhaka WASA - Annual Report 2020-21 (operator)
  3. The Business Standard - Wasa suffers water bill loss, consumers made to pay (press)
Claim 7 clm-9c4038b316f855be quantitative
Its Annual Report 2020-21 counts 70 completed DMAs in the managing director's foreword and 71 in the body
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
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.' Body: 'So far 71 DMA has been completed where NRW has reduced from 40% to 5%.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dhaka WASA - Annual Report 2020-21 (operator)
Claim 8 clm-fb5593ee3415bacb quantitative
puts non-revenue water inside them at under 4%, at 5% and at 7% in three different passages
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Same PDF, three passages: 'So far 71 DMA has been completed where NRW has reduced from 40% to 5%'; the managing director's profile, 'reduced its NRW from 40% to 7% in DMA areas'; and a board-member profile crediting the DWSSDP with 'Reduced water loss (NRW) from 40% to <4% in DMA areas'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dhaka WASA - Annual Report 2020-21 (operator)
Claim 9 clm-d80c730c5a55f49d quantitative
DWASA's July 2025 monitoring report for ADB records physical losses in commissioned DMAs down from 40% to an average of 3.44%
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Verbatim: 'Commissioned DMAs have achieved uninterrupted 24-hour piped water supply, reduced physical water losses from 40% to less than 10% with the current average of 3.44%'.
Caveat
The sentence is a standing paragraph carried across project documents rather than a dated measurement; the ADB data sheet's older version of the same paragraph says 'less than 15%'.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)
Claim 10 clm-83361c29afc9c4c9 quantitative
while overall physical losses and non-revenue water are still estimated at about 26%
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Same paragraph: 'A remaining challenge for DWASA is to enhance the efficiency gains throughout its service area and reduce overall physical losses and nonrevenue water, which is still estimated to be about 26%.'
Caveat
An estimate, and the same wording appears in the 2016 project rationale, so it may be inherited rather than freshly measured; DWASA's own officials gave 22% in April 2024.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)
Claim 11 clm-220d6d968fc0d834 quantitative
ADB's project data sheet gives 1.6-5.8% in the handed-over areas
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Under Progress Toward Outcome: 'non-revenue water (NRW) measured at a range between 1.6% 5.8% (target: 10.0%); and (iv) in the handed over DMAs, 100.0% test results met country standards.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement Project, project data sheet (financier)
Claim 12 clm-e9d012263fdbdf96 quantitative
In April 2024 the deputy managing director for operations told The Business Standard that 113 of 156 DMAs were finished, that overall system loss was 22%, below 5% inside the DMAs and above 40% in the 43 areas without them
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Named source: 'the agency's deputy managing director (operation and management), AKM Shahid Uddin, told TBS, "Dhaka Wasa's current overall systems loss is 22%, which is much lower than before."' The same passage carries 'Out of the planned 156 DMAs, 113 have been completed' and '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%.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Business Standard - Wasa suffers water bill loss, consumers made to pay (press)
Claim 13 clm-aa10bb5e643cc278 quantitative
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
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
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
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)
Claim 14 clm-08db56c8dd874b06 descriptive
No independent measurement was found
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
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.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)
  2. The Business Standard - Wasa suffers water bill loss, consumers made to pay (press)
Claim 15 clm-9c8ebd4b77a067f2 quantitative
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
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
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
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dhaka Tribune - Wasa forms body to assess water production, system loss (press)
Claim 16 clm-902f96c7e8304949 quantitative
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%
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
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
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Business Standard - Wasa suffers water bill loss, consumers made to pay (press)
  2. DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025)
Claim 17 clm-fe2807df58b086f9 quantitative
three government sources in 2026 put groundwater at 66%, 70% and 77% of production
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
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
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha - Govt launches Tk 920.85cr emergency water supply project in Dhaka (state news agency)
  2. The Daily Star - Dhaka Wasa turns to groundwater despite unfinished projects (press)
  3. The Daily Star - Tk 32,554cr plan for Dhaka's water future (press)
Claim 18 clm-516d97bebbc90eca descriptive
the water table under Dhaka is falling by two to three metres a year
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
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.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Daily Star - Tk 32,554cr plan for Dhaka's water future (press)
  2. The Daily Star - Dhaka Wasa turns to groundwater despite unfinished projects (press)
Claim 19 clm-87fefa44a991b8b4 quantitative
the emergency project the government approved in 2026 to replace, regenerate and add deep tube wells carries 124 more SCADA systems with it
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
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
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha - Govt launches Tk 920.85cr emergency water supply project in Dhaka (state news agency)
  2. The Daily Star - Dhaka Wasa turns to groundwater despite unfinished projects (press)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA)
Actor types
utility
Funding model
mixed
Funding description
ADB loans (US$150M and US$275M) with Government of Bangladesh counterpart funding
Cost
~US$212M (ADB Loan 2382-BAN) and ~US$408M (Loan 3397-BAN), total project costs
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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10 source dossiers

ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Network Improvement Project, project data sheet (financier) adb.org · 5 linked claims

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2026-04-24
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2026-08-26
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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%)'. Blocks WebFetch (403); read with a browser user-agent.

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DWASA for ADB - 15th Semi-Annual Social Safeguards Monitoring Report, DWSNIP (July 2025) adb.org · 7 linked claims

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Semestral report for January-June 2025, cover-dated July 2025, prepared by DWASA for ADB. 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'.

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ADB - Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program, project data sheet (financier) adb.org · 1 linked claim

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2019-09-18
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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'. Blocks WebFetch (403); read with a browser user-agent.

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Dhaka WASA - Annual Report 2020-21 (operator) objectstorage.ap-dcc-gazipur-1.oraclecloud15.com · 6 linked claims

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DWASA's own annual report, cover title 'Vision to Turn Around: Go Green and Go Digital - Annual Report 2020-21'. 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. The copy on dwasa.portal.gov.bd serves a self-signed certificate and returns 503 to automated readers; this government object-storage copy of the same document is readable.

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The Business Standard - Wasa suffers water bill loss, consumers made to pay (press) tbsnews.net · 5 linked claims

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Carries deputy managing director (operation and management) AKM Shahid Uddin on 22% overall system loss, 113 of a planned 156 DMAs completed, below 5% inside DMAs and above 40% in the 43 areas without them; also reports the paper's own review of DWASA audit and annual reports FY15-FY23.

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Dhaka Tribune - Wasa forms body to assess water production, system loss (press) dhakatribune.com · 1 linked claim

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Reports that DWASA formed a committee under chief engineer Abdus Salam Bepary to determine actual water production and system loss, visiting pumps to examine meter installations and replace faulty meters, reporting to the managing director within 30 working days. The host returns 403 to every automated reader tried, including a Wayback replay; existence and content confirmed through search results only, so no publication date is recorded here.

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United News of Bangladesh - DMA helping Dhaka Wasa curb system loss (press) unb.com.bd · 1 linked claim

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The earliest of the DMA counts used here: 'The government initially decided to introduce 164 DMAs. Of them, the process to introduce 62 DMAs has been completed', with overall system loss then at 20 percent, all attributed to an official document.

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The Daily Star - Dhaka Wasa turns to groundwater despite unfinished projects (press) thedailystar.net · 3 linked claims

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The Tk 920.85 crore Emergency Water Supply in Dhaka City project as it went to Ecnec: 'A SCADA system will be introduced for real-time monitoring.' Also project focal person Abdul Majid on demand of about 320 crore litres a day 'with 70 percent currently supplied from deep tube wells', former Wasa chairman Ghulam Mostafa on a water table 'falling by about one metre each year', and Gandharbpur Phase 1 about 50% and Saidabad Phase 3 about 20% complete.

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Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha - Govt launches Tk 920.85cr emergency water supply project in Dhaka (state news agency) bssnews.net · 2 linked claims

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State news agency on the same project after approval: 'This project has already got approval by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in its last meeting', 450 pump motor sets, 450 variable frequency drives and 124 SCADA systems, 388 deep tube wells replaced, 280 regenerated and 60 rehabilitated over 361 square kilometres of DNCC and DSCC. Gives DWASA production of about 2,977 MLD and groundwater at 66 percent of total water production against 34 percent surface water.

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The Daily Star - Tk 32,554cr plan for Dhaka's water future (press) thedailystar.net · 2 linked claims

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Institute of Water Modelling report presented to Ecnec: Dhaka needs about 3.13 billion litres a day against DWASA production of about 3.0 billion, and 'Nearly 77 percent of the city's water comes from 1,388 deep tube wells, causing groundwater levels to fall by 2-3 metres a year.'

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Dhaka WASA District Metered Areas and SCADA” — Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/dhaka-wasa-dma-network/ (last verified 2026-08-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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