A section of residents of Woraiyur in Tiruchi city has complained of getting drinking water mixed with sewage for the last five days.
He then alerted his neighbours and residents of other nearby areas.
The water supplied to the residents was full of sewage.
It was black and unfit for human consumption, said a resident, who displayed bottles filled with the contaminated water.
“It was detected five days ago.
But we do not know how long we have beendrinking the contaminated water.
We have now stopped consuming it,” a resident said.
Acting on a complaint, a team of workers engaged by Tiruchi Corporation on Monday began the task of detecting the point of sewage mixing with drinking water on Monday.
They continued the work on Tuesday too.
But they were unable to detect the sewage mixing point.