New Delhi, November 16
Releasing a study on the quality of piped drinking water being supplied in 21 cities across the country, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan said on Saturday that in Delhi and 13 state capitals, tap water is "undrinkable".
The only metropolitan city where people could drink tap water safely was Mumbai as all its samples complied with Indian standards, the minister said.
“Samples were taken from 11 places in Delhi. All samples failed, but all those collected from Mumbai are clear. Tap water of Mumbai is drinkable," said the minister.
“None of the samples drawn from 13 state capitals — Chandigarh, Thiruvananthapuram, Patna, Bhopal, Guwahati, Bengaluru, Gandhi Nagar, Lucknow, Jammu, Jaipur, Dehradun, Chennai and Kolkata — complied with the requirements of the Indian Standard,” said Paswan. — IANS
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