Chittagong: Chittagong city dwellers will get 143 million litres of water every day through Karnaphuli Water Supply project from this year, said managing director of Chittagong Wasa engineer AKM Fazlullah on Saturday.

‘The water crisis will reduce to a great extent if the water supply begins here through Karnaphuli Water Supply Project, he said.

Fazlullah was speaking at a seminar titled ‘Ongoing water supply project of JICA’, arranged by Chittagong Wasa and JICA at the port city’s Agrabad Hotel.

Meanwhile, the work on installing a 90-km transmission and distribution line and setting up of three reservoir tanks has been completed, he said.

Fazlullah said only 210 million litres of water is currently being supplied to the city from two water treatment plants of Chittagong Wasa every day against the demand for 500 million litres.

Besides, Wasa has undertaken another project for setting up a 600-km water transmission and distribution line and a reservoir tank for water supply, he said.

The project work will begin in 2016 and complete in 2019, he said.