Delhi Water Row: Posters Question Kejriwal Over Disease Cases

Posters appear in Delhi questioning CM over incidence of diarrhoea and cholera over quality of drinking water.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

(Photo: PTI)

Amid a raging controversy over the quality of Delhi's drinking water, posters have come up at ITO on Thursday, 21 November, questioning the AAP government on the high number of diarrhea and cholera cases registered in the city in the last four years.

According to a Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) report released by Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on 16 November, all water samples collected from Delhi failed a quality test.

Amid a raging controversy over the quality of Delhi's drinking water, posters have come up at ITO on Thursday, 21 November, questioning the AAP government on the high number of diarrhoea and cholera cases registered in the city in the last four years.

Posters question Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal(Photo: ANI)

"The Delhi Jal Board chairman should answer how 21,88,253 cases of diarrhoea were registered in Delhi in the last four years if the water is clean," read one of the posters.

"Hospitals (in Delhi) registered 19,283 cases of cholera during the period and 36,426 water-related complaints were registered in 2018," it said.

Early this week, posters bashing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for forcing people to drink "poisonous" water were seen in parts of Delhi.

In the first phase of its survey, the BIS had found all the 11 samples drawn from Delhi did not comply with the quality norms and the piped water was not safe for drinking purpose.

Testing of water samples was conducted to check organoleptic and physical parameters and know the chemical and toxic substances and bacteriological quality besides virological and biological parameters.