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BERHAMPUR: How good is the standard of ingesting water provided to Berhampur? The audit by Principal Accountant General has detected a number of deficiencies in testing of ingesting water which has raised critical query marks on water high quality folks of the town devour. The Odisha State Urban Water Supply Policy 2013 mandates 100 per cent water high quality is meant to be maintained and accordingly, the Urban Water Supply Protocol was permitted by the federal government prescribing parameters for testing and frequencies to be strictly adopted.
However, the audit discovered a number of discrepancies within the system by the Berhampur PH division which has a testing laboratory within the water remedy plant (WTP) at Jagadalpur.
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As per the city water high quality monitoring protocol, samples should be examined for 26 parameters for every manufacturing nicely and distribution system each month. However, restricted exams had been carried out by Spectro Pvt Ltd for samples taken from water remedy plant at Jagadalpur.
The exams had been carried out for PH, conductivity, turbidity, complete dissolved solids, complete alkaline, complete hardness, chlorides, residual free and nitrate, the report stated. However, exams for minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium, chloride, fluoride, sulphate, nitrate sodium, potassium, phosphate, silica and dissolve oxygen weren’t carried out.
“In absence of regular check of all the 26 parameters, the supply of unsafe drinking water to consumers cannot be ruled out,” the audit stated.
Similarly, as per authorities directions, steel parameter in water samples should be examined yearly as soon as for every consumption and manufacturing nicely, stand posts and tube wells. This is to stop consumption of metals similar to lead, cadmium and nickel in ingesting water past permissible restrict which impacts the human physique.
Presence of extreme metals delays bodily and psychological developments in kids, results in kidney issues, liver damages, pores and skin allergy and hypertension.
However, the audit seen that solely three units of exams for PH, chlorine and turbidity had been carried out on the testing laboratory of WTP at Jagadalpur. It additional discovered water contents have extra PH and turbidity.
During bodily verification of websites, it was discovered testing machines like scorching air oven, incubator, autoclave machines and colony counter for bacteriological exams within the testing laboratory had been mendacity idle for the final two years and no bacteriological exams are being completed.
Despite detection and graveness of the report, the superintending engineer of PH division said that strategies of audit will likely be taken into care in future however no compliance was despatched to the Accountant General’s workplace.
BERHAMPUR: How good is the standard of ingesting water provided to Berhampur? The audit by Principal Accountant General has detected a number of deficiencies in testing of ingesting water which has raised critical query marks on water high quality folks of the town devour. The Odisha State Urban Water Supply Policy 2013 mandates 100 per cent water high quality is meant to be maintained and accordingly, the Urban Water Supply Protocol was permitted by the federal government prescribing parameters for testing and frequencies to be strictly adopted.
However, the audit discovered a number of discrepancies within the system by the Berhampur PH division which has a testing laboratory within the water remedy plant (WTP) at Jagadalpur.
View of a water tank | ExpressAs per the city water high quality monitoring protocol, samples should be examined for 26 parameters for every manufacturing nicely and distribution system each month. However, restricted exams had been carried out by Spectro Pvt Ltd for samples taken from water remedy plant at Jagadalpur.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The exams had been carried out for PH, conductivity, turbidity, complete dissolved solids, complete alkaline, complete hardness, chlorides, residual free and nitrate, the report stated. However, exams for minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium, chloride, fluoride, sulphate, nitrate sodium, potassium, phosphate, silica and dissolve oxygen weren’t carried out.
“In absence of regular check of all the 26 parameters, the supply of unsafe drinking water to consumers cannot be ruled out,” the audit stated.
Similarly, as per authorities directions, steel parameter in water samples should be examined yearly as soon as for every consumption and manufacturing nicely, stand posts and tube wells. This is to stop consumption of metals similar to lead, cadmium and nickel in ingesting water past permissible restrict which impacts the human physique.
Presence of extreme metals delays bodily and psychological developments in kids, results in kidney issues, liver damages, pores and skin allergy and hypertension.
However, the audit seen that solely three units of exams for PH, chlorine and turbidity had been carried out on the testing laboratory of WTP at Jagadalpur. It additional discovered water contents have extra PH and turbidity.
During bodily verification of websites, it was discovered testing machines like scorching air oven, incubator, autoclave machines and colony counter for bacteriological exams within the testing laboratory had been mendacity idle for the final two years and no bacteriological exams are being completed.
Despite detection and graveness of the report, the superintending engineer of PH division said that strategies of audit will likely be taken into care in future however no compliance was despatched to the Accountant General’s workplace.
