KOLKOTA: Kolkata Municipality is concerned. Although the municipality never supplied the contaminated water. Regarding this, Vivek Banerjee, a resident of the residence, said, “There is a common water reservoir next to the fire-fighting reservoir in our residence. The fire-fighting reservoir has not been cleaned in the last ten years. When that reservoir is full, the contaminated water falls into the nearby reservoir. We suspect that the problem has arisen from there.” In the meantime, experts from the municipality have tested the water from wherever water is entering the residence and have said that there is no bacteria in that water and it is drinkable.

According to sources, there are about 20,000 water taps on the streets of the city. In addition to the water from all those taps, water samples from the Palta and Gardenreach water projects and various booster pumping stations are regularly tested at the food laboratory of the municipality. However, there are currently only five permanent water analysts for testing so many samples. The remaining four are temporary. So they are struggling to cope with the work. An official of the municipal health department said, “As soon as it gets hot, complaints of infection in the municipality’s water start coming in. Last month, there was a complaint of infection from drinking water in a slum in ward number 107. We go and collect water samples and test them. We find out where the problem was.” The municipality’s scientists are still regularly testing water samples everywhere.