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Officials told to check supply of dirty water
The Public Health Department has directed the officials of municipalities to take measures to ensure that there was no contamination of water supplied in their areas.
​Hyderabad: The Public Health Department has directed the officials of municipalities to take measures to ensure that there was no contamination of water supplied in their areas.
Issuing the directions Engineer in Chief of Public Health R Dhan Singh said that precautions like identification of leaks in water supply pipe lines and arresting the same to avoid wastage of drinking water should be taken up.
Scouring the water supply lines, cleaning all the storage reservoirs should be held periodically. Checking illegal tapping of the house service connections through booster pumps, ensuring proper chlorination in the distribution systems, closing of all pit taps to ensure proper distribution of water with required pressure to avoid water contamination, painting of all the bore wells within the service area with code numbers and watching condition of hand pumps and power pumps should be taken up imediately.
He further said sufficient spare parts required for repairing the hand pumps should be procured and kept ready well in advance. All the platforms of bore wells, open wells and public stand posts should be maintained properly to provide good hygienic conditions duly providing necessary disposal arrangements of used water to the nearest storm water drain.
The officials said they have instructed concerned officials that all the open wells which are likely to be used by the public for drinking water purposes should be properly disinfected. The quality of water should be frequently checked at any time and if the quality of water was found to be not fit for drinking, necessary boards cautioning the people should be displayed. Similar action should be taken in case of all the bore wells also, they said.
A task team with engineers from Public Health Department looking after sanitation and water supply and with other public health officers would be constituted. These teams will identify the critical and problematic areas in the towns and will furnish inspection report every day following which the municipal commissioners will take up necessary follow up action.
They should check residual Chlorine in those problematic areas on daily basis. The teams should conduct H2S strip test or bacteriological examination in these areas frequently and should document them. One sample should invariably be collected at source after post chlorination at treatment plant, the guidelines said.
