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Every figure in the argument is DWASA's own
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cutting its distribution network into district metered areas - isolated zones with metered inlets, so the water entering can be compared with the water billed
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a sector development programme approved in December 2007 rehabilitated 47 DMAs and 2,456 km of mains
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a follow-on loan approved in June 2016 added 85 more across seven of DWASA's ten zones
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with SCADA and automated meter reading reported as implemented in all of them
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The number of areas planned has itself moved: 164 in 2019, 145 in the utility's 2020-21 annual report, 156 by 2024
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Its Annual Report 2020-21 counts 70 completed DMAs in the managing director's foreword and 71 in the body
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puts non-revenue water inside them at under 4%, at 5% and at 7% in three different passages
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DWASA's July 2025 monitoring report for ADB records physical losses in commissioned DMAs down from 40% to an average of 3.44%
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while overall physical losses and non-revenue water are still estimated at about 26%
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ADB's project data sheet gives 1.6-5.8% in the handed-over areas
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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
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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
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No independent measurement was found
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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
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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%
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three government sources in 2026 put groundwater at 66%, 70% and 77% of production
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the water table under Dhaka is falling by two to three metres a year
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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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src-4abf857d380c7de6Loan 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.
src-a489f4d063deab96Semestral 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'.
src-43ef3e3f0836c597Loan 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.
src-d78622895fd7a0d8DWASA'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.
src-2c6b1ee055f229d5Carries 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.
src-0a0e9820a8d41d9eReports 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.
src-06fd15fc60d98064The 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.
src-44a7076fef9b34a4The 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.
src-4d4b9f66fc60a9ccState 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.
src-1050dfc21b05c6a4Institute 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.'