AN EVALUATION OF WATER SUPPLY SCENARIO IN KHULNA CITY CORPORATION AREA

In the urban areas of Bangladesh, service standard of community facilities lacks far behind of any recognized planning standard. Khulna City is an instance of having typical urban problems particularly the crisis of safe water. Approximately 45% population in this area is covered under piped water supply network. In this study an attempt has been made to evaluate the existing water supply system in the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) area regarding water supply installations and their capacity, water consumption pattern, satisfaction level of water supply and water demand-supply analysis. Structured and open-ended interview schedule were used as primary data collection tool. A two stage stratified random sampling was adopted and some statistical conventional techniques were used to analyze the data.…