Red water with foul smell and dead fish enters Indira Gandhi canal
Red water with foul smell and dead fish enters Indira Gandhi canal
Contaminated red water with dead fishes has entered into Rajasthan through Indira Gandhi canal from Punjab, after which the authorities have stopped drinking water supply from the canal as a precautionary measure.
“The water in the canal is black and red with foul smell and dead fish and snakes have been spotted in the water therefore its supply to water storage tanks has been stopped,” Vinod Jain, superintendent engineer (addl charge) of the Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED), Sriganganagar, said.
Until the contaminated water is cleaned; the storage of portable water will be supplied to the common man, he added.
“As the canal water is highly polluted and stinking, we are not supplying it for drinking purpose as a precautionary measure since yesterday. Samples were collected yesterday and today,” he said.
He said the drinking water supply to Sriganganagar district is 50,000 kilo litre per day.
While in Bikaner, the drinking water supply from the canal has been stopped for the time being, said the PHED additional chief engineer B Krishnan. “We have fresh water storage available with us. The situation is likely to improve in a couple of days,” he said.
The superintendent engineer- PHED (Hanumangarh), Amar Chand Gehlot, said that the water samples collected were being examined locally.
A large number of fish were found dead in the Beas on May 17 after molasses from a sugar factory leaked into the river in Punjab's Beas town, about 40 km from Amritsar.
-PTC News
