The health department is conducting a probe into alleged water contamination in Wazirabad near Sector 52, days after a four-year-old boy died.
Officials of the health department said they received 40 cases of diarrhoea last week, following the allegations of contamination.
Residents were advised to avoid consuming uncovered food and drinks, and boil potable water before drinking it.
“On Friday, five cases of diarrhoea were reported from the area.
These are in addition to 22 cases reported on Wednesday,” an official said.
Gurugram chief medical officer (CMO) Gulshan Rai Arora, said that water samples have been collected for testing.
“We are checking if there was a leak in the water supply pipeline, causing urea and other contaminants to be mixed with the water.
Another possible explanation can be inadequate chlorine in the water,” Arora said.
Yashpal Yadav, MCG commissioner, said, “The issue has not been brought to our notice yet.
No complaints have been registered in this regard.”

Low levels of toxic algae have been discovered in Salem’s drinking water, prompting officials to issue an advisory that parents should not give tap water to children under 6 years old.
Health officials warned pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under the age of 6 to not drink or cook with tap water.
Three toxic algae blooms discovered in Detroit Lake led to the detection of high concentrations of the liver toxin microcystin and cylindrospermopsin on May 25.
Four days later, the city issued an alert warning of the unsafe drinking water.
If they develop these symptoms, they should let their health care provider know, but, she warned, there are no tests available to screen for exposure and no specific treatment.
"Out of an abundance of caution, we are exercising precautions and only using bottled or filtered water for our patients and families."
Berman said nursing mothers who ingest the toxin could pass it to their infants through their breast milk.
Berman said the toxins might also have an impact on developing fetuses.
10-day exposure period City officials said they wanted to be proactive by warning people within the 10-day exposure window.
Still, he warned, people at risk should not be cavalier about the warning.

BENGALURU: In one of the worst cases of water contamination in recent times, as many as 270 women from Silver Crest Clothing Factory in Sarjapura fell ill that led the Bengaluru Urban Deputy Commissioner KA Dayanand to put a stop to production in the factory till they get clearance certificates from a dozen departments including health, labour, sanitation and food safety.
One of the factory workers (who requested anonymity) has filed a case in the Sarjapur Police Station against the management of the factory that employees around 2,700 employees including tailors, checkers, helpers and supervisors.
The police booked the case under section 337 of the Indian Penal Code, which is causing hurt by an act of endangering life or personal safety of others.
The women were treated in Town Hospital, Sarjapur, after they complained of stomach pain, diarrhoea and vomiting.
“I couldn’t cook the night meal for my children.
I was brought to the hospital directly.
Dr Mohammed Mustafa, one of the treating doctors, said, “We are a 50-bed hospital hence we have kept some women in the ICU but they are not critical.
Health officials said that identification of the exact contaminant that caused their illness is still awaited.
They will be serving a notice to the factory to separate the eating area from the rest of the factory, said Anekal District Health Officer Dr Gnanaprakasham A. Omkar Murthy, health supervisor from the State Surveillance Unit, Department of Health and Family Welfare, said, “We inspected the factory on Tuesday.
They need to maintain a certain distance.” “There is no barrier separating the eating area where the women bring home-cooked food and the room where cutting of garments happen.

Within 20 minutes, a second alert was sent saying there was a drinking water emergency for the Salem area.
Cory Grogan, spokesman for the emergency agency, said the initial wireless alert was sent without the proper information for the public to act.
The first alert said: "Emergency Alert: Civil Emergency in this area until 11:28PM PDT Prepare for Action OEM,1,OR" The alert was sent far beyond the area affected by the city of Salem’s recent water advisory, with members of the public up and down the Willamette Valley reporting that they received the alert.
Officials say they are working to understand why the initial alert was sent out without proper messaging.
Bottled water: Shortages in Salem follow report of toxins in tap water Toxins in water: Salem drinking water contaminated, children shouldn’t drink tap water The emergency management office issued a statement about the alert Tuesday night: "The alert, which was requested by the City of Salem to alert local residents about a drinking water advisory, defaulted to ‘civil emergency’ verbiage.
Yamhill County officials tried to assure residents that they were not affected by the water quality alert.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office issued a similar statement on Twitter urging residents not to call 911 regarding the alert.
He suggested that when alerts go out, people should prepare for additional information to follow unless they have immediate emergencies that require a 911 call.
Larson said the city was working to get its website back up.
Results confirmed the presence of cyanotoxins in the drinking water at levels above acceptable limits for children and those in compromised health.

Rows of citrus trees bundled with balls of sweet oranges, tangy lemons and ripe limes are part of the region’s bucolic past.
Perchlorate contamination Fertilizer shipped from the Atacama Desert of Chile in the 1930s and 1940s and mixed into the rich loam of Pomona’s fertile ground not only contained nitrates that pumped up production, but also perchlorate, a chemical that causes thyroid damage and wreaks havoc with crucial hormones at high doses.
In short, perchlorate contaminated the groundwater in Pomona, the city’s largest source of drinking water, closing eight to 14 wells and causing a crisis that cost the city close to $10 million for a cleanup plant and ongoing maintenance.
In short, the jury concluded the benefits of the fertilizer outweighed the eventual poisoning to the water supply and possible harm to public health.
That ruling doesn’t make any sense whatsoever,” said Ken Manning, the executive director of the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority, the agency responsible for overseeing contamination and well water cleanup, and the former CEO of the Chino Basin Watermaster.
SQM attorney Bob Smith, with the San Diego-based law firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, said the company’s product was not defective and the mining company did nothing wrong.
“SQM made millions of dollars from selling its product to Pomona’s citizens yet refuses to take responsibility for cleaning up the pollution caused by its product.
The city of Pomona built a treatment plant for $9 million and asked SQM to help defray the costs but the company refused, Poulsen said, so it sued.
“The benefit of the fertilizer exceeded any risk from its use,” he said during an interview Wednesday.
It creates an incentive for companies not to look into the risks of their products,” Leff said.

(all times local): 7:40 p.m. State officials say a first round of tests on the water in an Idaho town have found no contamination after a fired city worker was found dead in his home.
He said previously that officials had already surveyed the system, saw nothing out of the ordinary and no evidence of tampering.
The Idaho Statesman reports results of the other tests are expected Saturday.
Residents of the town were told not to drink the water after emergency workers who found Tom Young’s body were hospitalized after entering the residence.
Dietrich Mayor Don Heiken said there was concern that Young had contaminated the drinking water well serving the community of 300.
Residents of an Idaho town have been told not to drink the water after a fired municipal worker was found dead in his home by emergency workers who were hospitalized after entering the residence.
Dietrich Mayor Don Heiken says 62-year-old Tom Young was found dead Thursday.
Heiken says there’s concern Young contaminated the drinking water well serving the community of 300.
Lincoln County Disaster Services Coordinator Payson Reese says eight people including emergency responders became ill after entering the home, were sent to hospitals and later released.
It is not known how Young died or what sickened the emergency responders but Reese says a nitrogen canister was found in the home.

Washington (CNN)Journalists weren’t the only ones shut out from the Environmental Protection Agency’s conference this week on chemically contaminated drinking water.
The EPA’s PFAS National Leadership Summit landed in the spotlight because the Trump administration has withheld a Department of Health and Human Services report on the chemicals’ health risks, and because the agency blocked some reporters, including from CNN, from covering a speech by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
After an Associated Press reporter was physically shoved out of the building, the EPA allowed reporters to attend about four hours of the two-day conference.
Multiple attendees, including several from environmental groups that have questioned Pruitt’s actions at the EPA, described the meeting to CNN as primarily attended by state and federal regulators.
The EPA is preparing a national plan to deal with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which are used in manufacturing and many household products.
The two representatives of local groups who did attend were notified of their invitations just days before the conference.
Andrea Amico said requests from her New Hampshire group, Testing for Pease, were initially turned down, until the top EPA official in New England appealed directly to Pruitt.
The presentation from the American Chemistry Council at the meeting "kind of came across as an infomercial for the great new ways they are using these chemicals," he said.
He has met twice with the American Chemistry Council, including once earlier this month, and spoke at a council event in South Carolina last November, according to his calendar.
An official from the HHS office that prepared that report, Patrick Breysse, told conference attendees on Tuesday the report would be released soon, once a communications plan could be completed.

But where that soil goes – especially when it’s contaminated – is a complicated issue, pitting a project’s budget against the cost of environmentally-sound disposal against state and federal regulations.
Uxbridge became one of several towns around the state to become home to such a site – two in fact: one at a lot on Millville Road that is now chained off, and the other on the farm on South Street, which was previously a gravel pit for decades.
Local officials fear if the soil reclamation projects led to a contamination event, they would have no way to provide municipal water to people affected by it.
Under pressure from locals, the property owner, Elias Richardson, and the soil broker, Patrick Hannon, signed an agreement with the DEP called an ACO in August 2016, which required random sampling and testing of incoming loads, among other things.
While the work stopped at the Millville Road site, the work at Green Acres on South Street kept going until the preliminary injunction.
The site accepted truck loads until the injunction from the court.
But the soil reclamation project took the lot to a new direction.
When the practice started, Uxbridge had a ban on landfills, but no protections against soil reclamation activities.
In January, health officials in Middleboro passed new regulations that banned the importation of contaminated soil to town.
“A lot of us, we’ve been working on this for two and a half years and we’re now becoming active in the town because we’re still seeing pressure from Hannon to try and take over our town government,” Franz said.

The head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, is paranoid.
Actually, he’s not paranoid at all.
He knows people are out to get him and he’s right—we are out to get him.
The reason he knows people are out to get him is because he’s a corrupt and narcissistic zealot who is turning the agency he leads away from its original mission statement of protecting the environment and the public in order to gain power and glory from fossil fuel interests.
The Associated Press reports that members of the public and the press have been barred from the EPA’s hearing on widespread water contamination.
Guards barred an AP reporter from passing through a security checkpoint inside the building.
When the reporter asked to speak to an EPA public-affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.
While the press is reporting that Pruitt has said that water contamination is a “national priority,” he has been working to dismantle the existing, albeit meager, water pollution safeguards.
And because of our country’s neglected infrastructure, pollutants like plastics and lead are clear public health emergencies.
Pruitt and the EPA’s lack of transparency is not a symptom of his corruption: it’s an essential part of maintaining the power he needs to continue poisoning the regulatory system he has been charged with running.

SAN FRANCISCO – The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California claiming that Republic Services of Sonoma County Inc. is violating the Clean Water Act by dumping polluted storm water into area rivers.
The alliance claims that Sonoma owns and operates the waste transfer station Guerneville where they accept and sort waste.
It is alleged in court documents that violations of the state’s General Industrial Permit for storm water discharges, State Water Resources Control Board, Water Quality Orders, and permits for discharging storm water.
The lawsuit claims the transfer station is illegally discharging polluted storm water into “an unnamed tributary, which drains to Pocket Canyon Creek, which drains to the Russian River," all bodies of water protected by the Clean Water Act.
The alliance claims the Russian River, just downstream from the station, is polluted with “aluminum, indicator bacteria, sedimentation and siltation, specific conductivity, and temperature 40.” It’s claimed in court documents that because of storm water discharge, the Russian River is heavily polluted and now on the EPA’s list for bodies of water that do not meet acceptable standards.
CSPA claims the facility has “failed to test with adequate frequency, has not sampled all discharge points, has not analyzed the storm water samples collected at the Facility for all of the required pollutant parameters, and has not used the correct test methods to analyze their storm water samples”, noting that the few samples the facility has recorded exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for Iron, Aluminum, Zinc, and Chemical Oxygen Demand.
The complaint alleges the facility has not developed a required Storm Water Prevention Plan, and “failed to develop and implement an adequate monitoring and reporting program for the facility."
“The discharges of contaminated storm water are contributing to the violation of the applicable water quality standards in the Statewide Water Quality Control Plan and the applicable Regional Board’s Basin Plan, … because defendant’s storm water discharges contain high levels of total suspended solids and aluminum, which contribute to the Russian River’s sediment and aluminum impairment.” The alliance seeks civil penalties of $37,500 for daily violations, orders to stop the facility from unlawfully discharging storm water, an order enjoining the defendants to remedy the situation, and attorney fees and costs.
The alliance is represented by the Law Offices of Andrew L. Packard.
United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case number 3:18-cv-02731-MEJ