Stinking, yellow water supply in 3 Lucknow areas; no remedy yet

LUCKNOW: Of the seven areas where a survey found contaminated water two days ago, three are still receiving dirty water despite Jal Sansthan’s promise to promptly remedy the situation.
Residents of Alambagh, Khadra and Nishatganj complained on Friday that the tap supply stinking yellow and had sand particles.
“Three members of my family are suffering from jaundice, which is a caused by contaminated drinking water,” said Ramlakhan of Khadra.
BN Mahrohtra, who lives and owns a shop at Om Nagar in Alambagh, said he had lodged a complaint on the CM’s portal a week ago, but to no avail.
Jal Sansthan’s Alambagh zonal executive engineer Vimal Srivastava said domestic supply lines were broken at many places in the area. “We are identifying them and plugging the leaks. Hope the problem will be resolved in a week,” he said.
Executive engineer for Aishbagh and Khadra Ramkailash said, “Chlorine level is being monitored on a daily basis. We have not received any complaint about leaks.”
Between August 29 and September 4, the district health department and Jal Sansthan had held a joint survey that revealed lack of chlorination in water supplied to Mahanagar, Chinhat, Badshahnagar, Khadra, Alambagh, Nishatganj and LDA colony on Kanpur Road. Chlorination is necessary to kill bacteria and other microbes in water.