Goemkarponn Desk
CANACONA: The water supplied by PWD (Water-Supply) to the people of Agonda is highly contaminated and unfit for potable use.
According to reliable sources, a report on analysis of water samples collected from Agonda (supplied to the people) is received by Community Health Centre (CHC) Canacona that the water contains high material and substances unfit for human consumption. CHC reportedly submitted the report to Canacona police on the matter.
It may be recalled that blaming PWD (Water-Supply) for playing with the life’s of Agonda people, Congress leader Janardan Bhandari submitted a written complaint at the Canacona Police Station to file a FIR against the PWD Engineers and investigate the serious matter of supplying contaminated water for people’s consumption in Agonda.
After some people from Agonda raised the red-flag of receiving mostly soiled water in their taps, approached congress leader Janardhan Bhandari following inaction by PWD and continuing with the supply of same contaminated water.
Subsequently, congress party leader Janardhan Bhandari and his team inspected the storage tanks used by PWD to store the water pumped from a local source in Agonda itself, along with PWD (WS) engineers, who reportedly refused to accept the peoples claims of supplying muddy water.
Thereafter after Bhandari lodged a written complaint with Canacona police, police through CHC called for water examinations and also issued notices to the PWD as part of its pre-investigation into the complaint.
In the meantime, PWD took the exercise of cleaning the storage tanks and the pump house.
After receiving the said complaint, the police issued letters to the PWD (Water Supply) and and asked the Community Health Centre (CHC), Canacona to give a water-examination report regarding the purity of the water in Agonda. Accordingly, the officials of CHC collected Water samples and sent them for examination.
The reports has come that the water supplied through the taps to a section of people of Agonda storage in the particular tank is highly contaminated and unfit for consumption. It is learnt that report found high presence of hight maonts of e-coli and other impure substances/materials which are very dangerous for human health, and have the potentials of making the people fall sick with a numerous types of diseases, including kidney ailments, vector borne , amongst other ailments. It is also learnt that even after boiling the water to the highest degrees only a certain type of bacteria gets killed, but other types of bacteria and viruses remains unaffected in the water.
Anxious people claiming how to trust and consume water supplied by PWD and who have no other options but have already consumed the water supply in question are now eagerly awaits police investigation into the supply of contaminated water to a section of the people of Agonda