Treat water properly before consuming: KUKL
KATHMANDU, June 3
Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) has urged its clients to treat drinking water properly before consumption, as the water the office supplies gets contaminated in the monsoon season.
Though the office distributes water to household taps after proper treatment, it gets contaminated at local levels, the office, which is responsible for distributing drinking, said. “In the monsoon season we take additional measures but water gets contaminated after it enters in local channel,” said Milan Shakya, spokesperson of KUKL.
He said that the office analyzes water samples collected from treatment plants, distribution channels and from household taps. The office also increases chlorine and other chemicals in the monsoon to ensure that water is safe. The KUKL claimed that water in the treatment plants and its nearby areas are ok but those in the core city areas are problematic. Due to decaying pipeline, laid during the reign of Ranas, water gets contaminated.
“So we request all to filter or boil the water properly before consuming,” said Shakya. Last year, cholera had been detected in the diarrheal patients from Dallu, Syambhu, Kalimati, Teku, Kuleshwor and some other areas. Doctors suspected it was caused by the problems in the KUKL supplied water.
Shakya said the problems ended after the KUKL repaired the broken and decaying pipe of those areas.
The office said that pre-monsoon rain has increased the overall water production and it has been preparing to change the existing water distribution schedule.
The office supplies water once a week and one in every 10 days in some areas during dry season. But in monsoon, it distributes twice a week in some areas and once in some parts.
Shakya also informed that the office has also started the distribution of new taps. In dry season, the office stops providing new taps. Each year office distributes over 3,000 new taps.
The office recently has installed additional six new deep tube wells, which produce over 50 million liters of water. The office said that the new deep tube wells installed at at Mahankalchaur, Dobhan, Sanglekhola, Manamaiju, Bode, Gongabu have started production.
The KUKL said that demand for water in capital stands at over 350 million liters per day, but in dry season production slides to 80 million liters.
Source: Republica
KATHMANDU, June 3
Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) has urged its clients to treat drinking water properly before consumption, as the water the office supplies gets contaminated in the monsoon season.
Though the office distributes water to household taps after proper treatment, it gets contaminated at local levels, the office, which is responsible for distributing drinking, said. “In the monsoon season we take additional measures but water gets contaminated after it enters in local channel,” said Milan Shakya, spokesperson of KUKL.
He said that the office analyzes water samples collected from treatment plants, distribution channels and from household taps. The office also increases chlorine and other chemicals in the monsoon to ensure that water is safe. The KUKL claimed that water in the treatment plants and its nearby areas are ok but those in the core city areas are problematic. Due to decaying pipeline, laid during the reign of Ranas, water gets contaminated.
“So we request all to filter or boil the water properly before consuming,” said Shakya. Last year, cholera had been detected in the diarrheal patients from Dallu, Syambhu, Kalimati, Teku, Kuleshwor and some other areas. Doctors suspected it was caused by the problems in the KUKL supplied water.
Shakya said the problems ended after the KUKL repaired the broken and decaying pipe of those areas.
The office said that pre-monsoon rain has increased the overall water production and it has been preparing to change the existing water distribution schedule.
The office supplies water once a week and one in every 10 days in some areas during dry season. But in monsoon, it distributes twice a week in some areas and once in some parts.
Shakya also informed that the office has also started the distribution of new taps. In dry season, the office stops providing new taps. Each year office distributes over 3,000 new taps.
The office recently has installed additional six new deep tube wells, which produce over 50 million liters of water. The office said that the new deep tube wells installed at at Mahankalchaur, Dobhan, Sanglekhola, Manamaiju, Bode, Gongabu have started production.
The KUKL said that demand for water in capital stands at over 350 million liters per day, but in dry season production slides to 80 million liters.
Source: Republica
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