Residents of Uguem-Sanguem have complained of high level of turbidity in the drinking water supplied to them since the last many days.

NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has voiced concern about the quality of drinking water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board after testing several water samples.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi, already receiving flak for poor management during the monsoon season, on Wednesday claimed that more than 1,700 samples of water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board was unfit for drinking.

METRO Water on Monda said the joint meeting of it officials and Corporation au thorities decided to raise th chlorine level and not the re sidual chlorine to 10 ppm i water distributed through th Metro Water system.

Waterlife cleanses and purifies drinking water at an economical cost
Tapash Talukdar tapash.talukdar@timesgroup.com

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Residents of ward 21 of Virudhunagar town have complained of sewage mixing with drinking water supplied through pipeline.

The residents fumed that drinking water was being supplied only two times a month in the town.

And even that little water was not usable for any purpose, a resident said.

Delhi is an old town, which has gradually grown into a populous city. It is one of the important business centers of India and thickly populated as well. Since the last decade, drinking water problem has created havoc in the city. In this study, we collected 32 drinking water samples through out Delhi. Different parameters were examined using Indian standards to find out their suitability for drinking purposes. During this examination mainly the physico chemical parameters were taken into consideration.

The Delhi high court has directed the Centre to constitute a taskforce to ensure compliance of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for manufacturing and selling packed drinking water in the city.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has constituted a seven-member task force to take stringent action against illegal water bottling plants operating in the city.

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Installed at a cost of Rs.9 lakh, it can treat 9,000 litres every day

New facility: Beach goers drink from the water purification plant that was inaugurated on the Marina beach on Tuesday.

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