Turbidity of water in Bhatsa increases; BMC urges residents to filter water before drinking

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drinking water BMC has appealed to citizens for filtering h2o earlier drinking. (File)

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Tuesday announced that owing to dense rainfall, the turbidity of h2o successful Bhatsa water has increased.

As a result, the civic assemblage has appealed to citizens for filtering h2o earlier drinking. “Continuous rainfall has been recorded successful the catchment country of the Bhatsa reservoir implicit the past 3-4 days.

As a result, from October 21, 2024 onwards, an summation successful the turbidity of h2o successful the stream has been observed. This has led to complaints of turbid h2o proviso successful definite areas of the eastbound suburbs and metropolis country of Mumbai,” said a connection issued by the BMC.

“The BMC’s Hydraulic Engineering Department is taking due measures astatine the h2o attraction works (WTP). However, arsenic a precautionary measure, the BMC urges citizens to filter and boil the h2o earlier consumption,” the connection said.

Civic officials maintained that complaints pertaining to accrued h2o contamination were recorded successful the eastbound suburbs which could beryllium attributed to the summation successful turbidity levels.

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