Hyderabad: Water board goes on disinfection drive

HYDERABAD: To ensure safe potable water to a population of one crore during the pandemic, Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has begun a disinfection drive on the premises of service reservoirs, raw water pumping stations and water treatment plants.
In view of the rising Covid-19 cases, the water board officials had also restricted entry of visitors at its head office in Khairatabad after five of their employees were infected with coronavirus. “The water board is maintaining 290 chlorination plants located in water treatment plants, filter beds, balancing reservoirs and service reservoirs.
The quality of water is regularly monitored by our quality assurance and testing wing and water samples are also being checked thoroughly,” HMWS&SB general manager, quality assurance & testing wing, J Sunil Kumar told TOI.