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February 08, 2006
Lahore Pakistan has very contaminated drinking water
In Lahore, Pakistan, the country's second largest city, 80% of the samples of drinking water taken by the Punjab government's Epidemiology Laboratory Institute of Public Heath (ELIPH) from 222 various locations in the city have been found contaminated.
The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) officials claimed that they provided clean water which got contaminated in the distribution system because of old pipes. I thought that was why municipal water systems chlorinate their water.
ELIPH discovered that the contaminated water supply was not limited to the poor parts of the city as posh localities including the Punjab Civil Secretariat, where many Punjab ministers and secretaries operate from, was also found to be unfit for human consumption.
The WASA budget for the current year includes an exclusive project for installing water filtration plants in each union council to keep the city's water clean, as reported by the Daily Times.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at February 8, 2006 06:45 PM
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