A local canal in the district has reportedly lost its ecosystem variation as Khunla City Corporation (KCC) has been draining its waste water into it for long.
Besides, the people living on the Khuder canal vastly known as Khuder Khal have been victim of immense suffering because of coming out stinky odour from it.
The local fishermen are barely found fishes in the canal as its water already went into out of living for the species. Particularly people living in Lota-Khamarbari area suffer more to be very near to the canal.
It was learnt there are seven wards under the KCC and the wastewater from Moiddadanga, Krishi College, Daulatpur, Pabla, Gaikur, Aronghata, Dewana, Boira, Kartikkul and Bastohara has been drained into the Khuder canal for long. And there is no way to drain the water into elsewhere from the canal and that is why it turned into black and stinky.
The cattle those take its water has been victim of fatal diseases.
A local shrimp enclosure owner named Omal Mandol said he has been incurring loss as the filthy water is killing his fishes entering into his closure.
Local quack named Chautoinna Mandal said diarrhoea, dysentery as well as skin diseases are common phenomenon among the people living in Lota-Khamarbari area owing to the excessively contaminated water.
A social worker namely Sukriti Mandal said just a two-hour rain inundate the area making easy entrance for the stinky water from the Khuder Khal.
When contacted, Dumuria Upazila Nirbahi Officer Shamsudduja said the wastewater-ensued problem would be raised in their next development committee meeting.
Dumuria upazila Chairman Khan Ali Mansur said: “The KCC should urgently manage an alternative way for the wastewater management so that the dwellers get a relief the suffocating suffering.”
KCC ward no 4 Commissioner Kabir Hossain said a link canal project from Aronghata to the Mayur river via Khuder Khal has already been taken for the wastewater management and the tender also would be floated soon.
KCC Mayor Md Maniruzzaman Moni said a master plan for the drainage system was in the pipeline. Besides, a drainage line would be set up as well to mitigate the suffering of the city dwellers, the mayor went on.
