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Phed: Phed To Report On Water Quality In State 20 Years After Last Survey | Jaipur News
Jaipur: Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) has carried out a survey on the quality of the water it supplies at 235 urban centres in the state. A report of the survey would be made public at a workshop of the department’s chemists on Wednesday.
PHED officials refused to share the details of this report before an official announcement on it on Wednesday, but the department’s chief chemist, HD Devenda, told TOI that it is a comprehensive report that states the quality of drinking water at the urban centres and the ways to improve the water quality where there is room for improvement.
“This report has been compiled after a gap of two decades. The last such report was compiled by the chemists of PHED in 2002,” said Devenda.
The survey was conducted in the wake of a few incidents in the last one year involving allegations that people died by consuming contaminated water supplied by PHED. In two such incidents – in Karauli and Kota – tests by PHED had revealed that the water supplied by the department was not contaminated.
The latest survey had become essential as the laboratories of PHED have seen much technological advance in the last few years, said the chemists. All laboratories of PHED and the chemists and lab assistants of the department have received accreditation from National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), and PHED is keeping a strict vigil to make water contamination free at the source level, they said. It is therefore expected that the quality of water supplied by PHED would be far better than that 20 years ago.
Since water contamination largely depends on the conditions of the pipelines, and pipelines have been replaced at several cities in the state under the Amrut 2.0 scheme, the survey report is expected to describe the water quality as satisfactory.
PHED officials refused to share the details of this report before an official announcement on it on Wednesday, but the department’s chief chemist, HD Devenda, told TOI that it is a comprehensive report that states the quality of drinking water at the urban centres and the ways to improve the water quality where there is room for improvement.
“This report has been compiled after a gap of two decades. The last such report was compiled by the chemists of PHED in 2002,” said Devenda.
The survey was conducted in the wake of a few incidents in the last one year involving allegations that people died by consuming contaminated water supplied by PHED. In two such incidents – in Karauli and Kota – tests by PHED had revealed that the water supplied by the department was not contaminated.
The latest survey had become essential as the laboratories of PHED have seen much technological advance in the last few years, said the chemists. All laboratories of PHED and the chemists and lab assistants of the department have received accreditation from National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), and PHED is keeping a strict vigil to make water contamination free at the source level, they said. It is therefore expected that the quality of water supplied by PHED would be far better than that 20 years ago.
Since water contamination largely depends on the conditions of the pipelines, and pipelines have been replaced at several cities in the state under the Amrut 2.0 scheme, the survey report is expected to describe the water quality as satisfactory.
