SWECO to improve drinking water in Bangladesh

SWECO has been awarded a contract to improve drinking water quality in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, an important breakthrough in a country with urgent environmental needs.

”The assignment in Bangladesh represents an important step for us. The need for modern environmental technology is enormous and we are also seeing rising demand for our environmental services from other countries in the region,” says Per Johansson, Managing Director of SWECO's Water and Environmental unit, SWECO VIAK. SWECO VIAK will study raw water quality in the Lakhya River, from which drinking water is distributed to millions of people in Dhaka. At present the water flows into the city’s large-scale Saidabad water treatment plant, whose capacity will be doubled. Several alternative measures to improve water quality will be evaluated and the assignment will provide a basis for deciding which is the most advantageous. The contract is worth over EUR 210,000 and will be funded by Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.