Kathmandu, July 29 -- Sixty percent of the samples of jar water collected from various locations in the Godawari Municipality of Lalitpur district have been found contaminated with faecal coliform.

Of the 10 samples of 10 separate bottled water companies collected by health workers deployed from the municipality, which were tested in the laboratory of the Health Office Lalitpur, six tested positive for microbes.

"We have sealed the factories that were supplying contaminated water," said Muna Adhikari, Deputy Mayor of the municipality. "We will also check the quality of drinking water being piped to households by water supply utilities, and this is just the beginning."

Faecal coliform, a microscopic organism, lives in the intestines of ...