Elevated arsenic level in water puts Multanites' lives at risk

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With an estimate of over four million, about 45 percent population of the city, is deprived of clean drinking water, leaving the natives worst hit by multiple

The faulty underground sewerage system like breakage of decades' old pipelines has caused to increase heavy metals and arsenic contamination in drinking water which poses a serious threat to human life because of their toxicity.

The World Health Organisation has established 10 micrograms per litre as the permissible concentration in drinking water whileis stated to have 50 micrograms per litre arsenic in underground water which is five times higher than permissible, according to report of Public Health Engineering came out in 2018-19 through field investigation, survey and data collection.

According to Assistant Professor of Pathology, Nishtar Hospital Dr Abuzar Raza, it has reported increased cases of impaired nerve function, peptic diseases, cardiovascular, pulmonary diseases and gastroenteritis. “The department is able to look after all filtration plants through two monitoring officials on single motorbike,” according to secretary of water testing laboratory Khalid Javed.

Water Xen [executive engineer] Abudsslam, however, didn’t agree with the report, saying that Water and Sanitation Agency has so far able to manage pure water for larger parts of city by extending a strong net of underground water pipelines. “I don’t agree with excerpts of report as arsenic level has touched around 50 micrograms per litre in whole of the district. “We use to conduct TPV of water after every three-week here to ensure purity of drinking water, he said.

The decades-old underground water pipelines have got leaky, rusty and that water was mixing up with industrial and sanitation runoff pushing life relatively atAccording to WASA PRO Hassan Bukhari, about 80 percent water pipelines consisted of around 1400 km were laid in 90's decade in the city. The expansion with replacement of the rustic lines were kept on with the passage of time after WASA was established formally here, he said.

 

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