Kavrepalanchok. Tests have shown that 23 percent of the drinking water here is contaminated. The Public Health Office Dhulikhel has confirmed that 23 percent of the drinking water collected from 88 sampling points during the eight months of the current fiscal year was contaminated.
Office Chief Ragini Kakshapati Shrestha said that 20 places were contaminated when 88 places of various drinking water projects operated at 13 local levels of the district were tested. According to her, water from various consumer committees, drinking water corporations and other sources at the local level was tested.
Shrestha said that the office is conducting regular drinking water tests and that fecal coliforms (E. coli) were found in the polluted water. Shrestha said that during the monitoring and testing conducted at the local level in the district, the water from some drinking water sources and collection centers has been found to be contaminated, and that germs have been found in privately distributed drinking water in some places.
He said, ‘When testing the water from the source, reservoir and tap of the company that sells drinking water in jars, it was found to be bad. This suggests that the water may have been filled in jars somewhere and sold. We are investigating further.’
The office’s laboratory tests water from the district headquarters, Dhulikhel, and the major cities of Banepa, Panauti, Panchkhal, as well as the Nepal Army’s barracks and barracks, Nepal Police and private wells of locals. Lab technician inspector Bholanath Poudel said that treatment methods have been imposed on drinking water sources that have been confirmed to be contaminated by the laboratory test.
The office has been urging people to be vigilant as drinking water sources are contaminated. “We are still in the process of testing drinking water in suspicious areas, so we are giving the message that water should be boiled, filtered or only consumed after adding a specified amount of chlorine solution,” Shrestha said.
According to him, although people of all age groups can get cholera due to contaminated water, children, pregnant women and the elderly are at higher risk, so a special appeal has been made to be vigilant. Shrestha said that a plan has been made to take up public awareness programs related to water at the local level.
Similarly, it has been requested to wash hands thoroughly with soap and water before and after preparing food, after defecating and after handling garbage. Similarly, it has been requested to always cover drinking water with clean containers, cook food thoroughly, and avoid eating rotten, stale, and shrimp-like foods.
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