Sylhet Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, commonly known as Sylhet WASA or SWASA (Bengali: সিলেট ওয়াসা) is a Bangladesh government service agency under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives responsible for providing water and sewerage facilities to residents of Sylhet.
This system was introduced by the Sylhet Municipality under the then Ministry of Works of British India.
In 1980, the Sylhet Water Supply Master Plan project was taken under the auspices of the Department of Public Health Engineering and the Government of Netherlands.
Later, to meet the needs of local people, Water Supply and Sewerage Branch was formed as a single authority for water supply and sewerage of Sylhet City Corporation area named Sylhet WASA on 2 March 2022 under an initiative of Tajul Islam, Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives.
[1] Originally Sylhet WASA was established under the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority Act, 1996.