Drinking water contains iron more than requirement
The issue was identified during a lab test by a team from the Federal Drinking Water and Sewerage Management Project, Bharatpur.
BHARATPUR: Water supplied by four drinking water projects based in Madi Municipality in Chitwan is found to contain excessive iron than required.
The issue was identified during a lab test by a team from the Federal Drinking Water and Sewerage Management Project, Bharatpur.
The team spent three days for the tests of water samples from four drinking water projects in Madi. The water was managed through a deep boring system.
Issues of murkiness and excess iron were found in the water supplied by Gardi, Baghauda, Kalyanpur and Kharkatta drinking water projects, according to chemist Yogendra Narayan Dev.
The National Drinking Water Quality Standards recommends 0.3 mg/l as the limit for iron in drinking water. But it was measured at 0.3 mg/l in the waters being supplied in Madi. This is harmful for human health, it is said.
The excess iron may have various consequences in human health such as liver disease and heart problems. The water containing excessive iron substance changes the color of water, it has a metallic taste and smell, causes hair fall and turn white-colored cloths into yellowish
It is said such projects are found supplying water without filtering. More, the natural quality of water has got changed after the 2015 earthquake as well, according to Dev.
