Uranium in water: Samples to be tested at BARC

To provide safe drinking water free of uranium and other heavy metals,especially in the rural areas,Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed the Water Supply and Sanitation Department to immediately get the water samples of tube well-based schemes.

To provide safe drinking water free of uranium and other heavy metals,especially in the rural areas,Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed the Water Supply and Sanitation Department to immediately get the water samples of tube well-based schemes in all the districts tested from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,Mumbai,in a phased manner,within the next six months.

A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting with senior officers of the Water Supply and Sanitation Department here at the CMs residence this morning.

The Secretary,Water Supply and Sanitation,said the department had already got 199 samples from the districts of Bathinda,Mansa,Ludhiana,Moga,Ferozepur,Faridkot and Muktsar of the Malwa belt analysed from BARC.

These samples revealed higher level of uranium in drinking water in 38 tube well-based schemes. On the other hand,traces of uranium have been found within the permissible limit in the canal-based scheme. In order to give immediate relief to people who are supplied water from these 38 schemes,the department had already installed reverse osmosis (RO) plants and approval for installation of 15 RO plants had been accorded.

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