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Come rain, taps in the city spew dirty water [1]

MUMBAI: The first few days of monsoon have resulted in the regular yellowish-brown, brackish water from household taps across the city. The BMC's contamination report for the last 15 days of June shows 10% of the total samples tested were found to be unfit for drinking, and another 3% contained the harmful E. coli bacteria.

Publication Date: 
03/07/2009
Times Of India (Mumbai) [2]
Tags:
Water Quality [3], Monsoons [4], Maharashtra [5], Mumbai [6], Rainfall [7]
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