10 pc of N Delhi water samples found unfit for consumption

Almost 10 per cent of drinking water samples collected from areas under North Delhi Municipal Corporation have failed to meet prescribed standards, a report released here today said.
As compared to the South Corporation, where just 1.2 per cent samples failed to meet the requisite criteria, its counterpart in the North fared much worse in the testing done by the civic body in coordination with the Delhi Jal Board.
According to the testing done by the corporation's own laboratory, 37 out of 420 samples from NDMC were found to be unfit for consumption.
Narela and Civil Line zones were the worst affected with 20 out of 70 and seven out of 17 samples failing the tests.

When it came to results of the South Corporation area, only three of the 242 samples failed the laboratory inspection.
As far the 151 samples tested jointly by the civic body and the Delhi Jal Board are concerned, 25 or almost 17 per cent from the North Delhi area were declared unsuitable for drinking.

The joint testing of 70 samples from the South saw all of them passing the test.
The testing was not undertaken in the East Delhi Municipal Corporation area and hence the figures for that part are not available in the report.
"We have been repeatedly asking both the Delhi government and the Jal Board to look into the matter but to no avail," said Leader of the House in North Corporation Mahendra Nagpal while giving details of the report.

"This is a serious matter as it concerns public health. The situation will only get worse in the summer months. We can only ask the state government to look into the matter," he added.