Srinagar, April 3 -- Ironically, the said water is supplied to more than 6 lakh people of Srinagar uptown areas.

The experts say that rise in gastrointestinal diseases and liver ailments is attributed to intake of unhygienic water supplied by the Public Health Engineering Department (PHE) also called department of Jal Shakti. Between February to July 2023 several tests have been done on water samples collected from Doodh Ganga at Nowhar, Sogam , Chadoora, Barzulla and Tengpora and the results are very scary.

In compliance to the NGTs order dated30-05-2023the thenPrincipal Secretary Housing and Urban Development Department took some initiatives but that only controlled the illegal riverbed mining in Doodh Ganga to some extentbut failed t...