Roadside water vendors selling poor quality water
With the onset of summers come water-borne diseases. The reason is nothing else but poor quality of water.
The scorching summer is here again and so are the diseases that haunt the residents of Delhi at this time of the year, in which the most common are water borne diseases. Water borne diseases like cholera, jaundice and typhoid generally happen due to contaminated water.
“Every year, there’s a spurt in cases of water-borne diseases in summers. We know the reason is nothing else but poor quality of water. And the surge in water-borne diseases that we witness at our OPDs is testimony to this,” said Dr Randeep Guleria, a general physician from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Think twice before drinking water from roadside water vendors this summers as majority of them don’t have MCD licence and they sell unfiltered and poor quality water.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) provides licenses to the vendors and contractors in the city and tells them to use water from the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). The condition is worse in Noida as they don’t have any regulating bodies for water vendors.
“The MCD people come once in a blue moon and check our license only but the purity of the water in the water trolleys has never been checked. The inspector do not even care to bring the relevant instruments with them” said Ramesh a Delhi vendor.
Ganesh, a water vendor in Noida, candidly admits that he and his fellow vendors fill the tank with local tap water and with hand pumps. He said they have no choice as other water sources are far away. Even they buy ice with the local ice vendor of the area with out checking the purity of it. Those local ice vendors keep the ice bars on shabby sacks to store them for long.
Precautions
- Do not drink water from roadside vendors.
- The best option is to boil water properly for 20 minutes and then carry it while going out.
- Avoid street food, unwashed fruits and vegetables
- Think twice before drinking water from roadside water vendors
- Every year, there’s a spurt in cases of water-borne diseases in summers. So be cautious while drinking water at any of the road side stalls.
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