Public Health Quality of Piped Water Available in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town

日期 : Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

The study reveals that the water quality in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town does not meet the WHO guide lines. In the interest of public health, supplies should be examined regularly to confirm that they are free from the pathogenic microbes. Moreover, much emphasis should be given on monitoring the chlorine in water supplies upto the consumer level. It is believed that the filtration plant and reservoirs are chlorinating water adequately, and while chlorine levels were, in most cases, adequate throughout the distribution network, they fell during storage in the underground and overhead tanks of the consumers. This may be simply due to excessive storage time or an excess of organic material in the tanks, which are seldom if at all cleaned by the consumers. It was also observed during the study that some time the level of chlorine exceed to the maximum permissible limit which changes the organoleptic properties of water.