Our Correspondent, Rangamati
Participants at the five-day conference of Asia Regional Network (ARN) of donors and their partner NGOs working for rural safe water supply and sanitation visited Shilchhori and Dogiachhari areas in the hills in the last two days.
In the areas, they saw flow of water from hills and examined how to use it for supply to houses in the hills through pipe.
The conference, attended by representatives from India, Pakistan, Nepal and the United Kingdom, began on Sunday.
The conference is reviewing last year's experience of ARN in other countries and examining how to improve rural water supply in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). It will make suggestions in his regard, conference sources said.
GreenHill and Water Aid Bangladesh (WAB), both NGOs, jointly organised the conference this year for the first time in Bangladesh.
Rangamati Hill District Council Chairman Maniklal Dewan inaugurated the conference.
The inaugural session was also addressed by, among others, Rangamati Deputy Commissioner Jafar Ahmed Khan, Superintendent of Police Humayun Kabir, WAB Country Director Timothy J. Claydon, Water Aid London chapter's director Valinda Calaguas and Water Aid United Kingdom (UK)'s Asia Regional Manager Leana Chowdary and Mong Thoai Ching, executive director of GreenHill.
Speaking on the occasion, Dewan sought co-operation from donors to supply safe water to the poor tribesmen in the hill areas.