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Ram Vilas Paswan releases Water Quality Report for State Capitals, Mumbai tops ranking for quality of tap water, Delhi at bottom as analysed by BIS

Ram Vilas Paswan releases Water Quality Report for State Capitals, Mumbai tops ranking for quality of tap water, Delhi at bottom as analysed by BIS
Ram Vilas Paswan releases Water Quality Report for State Capitals, Mumbai tops ranking for quality of tap water, Delhi at bottom as analysed by BIS

Ram Vilas Paswan releases Water Quality Report for State Capitals, Mumbai tops ranking for quality of tap water, Delhi at bottom as analysed by BIS

Ranking for Quality of Tap Water: The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan released the findings of a study that was conducted through the Bureau of India Standards (BIS) on the quality of piped drinking water.

In the first phase, the samples of drinking water were drawn from various locations across Delhi and in the second phase samples were drawn from 20 State capitals and sent for testing as per Indian Standard 10500:2012 (Specification for Drinking Water) as set by the BIS.
Tests were conducted on various parameters such as Organoleptic and Physical Tests,Chemical test, Toxic substances and Bacteriological tests in the first stage. A vast majority of the samples have failed to comply with the requirements of IS 10500:2012 in one or more parameters.

Mumbai topped the ranking released by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for quality of tap water. Delhi finished at the bottom, with 11 out of 11 samples failing on 19 parameters.

In the cities of Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Ranchi, Raipur, Amravati and Shimla, one or more samples did not comply with the requirements of the Standard and none of the samples drawn from 13 of the State Capitals i.e. Chandigarh,Thiruvananthapuram, Patna, Bhopal, Guwahati, Bengaluru, Gandhinagar, Lucknow, Jammu, Jaipur, Dehradun, Chennai, Kolkata complied with the requirements of the Indian Standard.

Tops Ranking for Quality of Tap Water Complete List Here:


Rank
Capital
1
Mumbai
2
Hyderabad

Bhubaneswar
3
Ranchi
4
Raipur
5
Amravati
6
Shimla
7
Chandigarh
8
Thiruvananthapuram
9
Patna

Bhopal
10
Guwahati

Bengaluru

Gandhinagar
11
Lucknow

Jammu
12
Jaipur

Dehradun
13
Chennai
14
Kolkata
15
Delhi

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