NIZAMABAD: Lack of awareness about water quality has led to health problems among people, especially women and children.
One of the biggest problems is that there were umpteen unauthorised drinking water plants that are supplying water without permissible calcium and fluoride content.
RO plants were set up in villages and towns by few organisations and private persons, albeit for their own business interests.
Worried over the contamination, people are going in for packaged water supplied by traders and private units. Thousands of rupees are being spent for consuming water supplied by unauthorized plants in villages and towns.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, Mission Bhagiratha, water quality consultant N. Laxminarayana said that internal organs of the human body are affected with RO plant water, which removes minerals and increases acid, which is known to cause anemia. A bigger blow is that magnesium, sodium, potassium, fluoride and calcium are removed during the process…