Bhopal: Inmates of Sanjay Gandhi Hostel of Barkatullah University staged a sit-in in front of the university admin block, Satya Bhawan to protest water scarcity in the boarding facility on Friday.
The hostels as well as BU campus have been struggling with inadequate supply of water for quite some time and with the approaching summer, the problem has aggravated.
The boarders though had complained about the matter to registrar UN Shukla during his surprise inspection to the hostel fifteen days ago, nothing positive has come out so far.
The students continued their protest for more than two hours and it was ended only after the registrar and VC in charge DC gupta assured them of immediate action on the issue.
Speaking to Free Press, BU student union president Swapnil Patel informed that “We have complained about the problem to the university officials multiple times but as no action has been taken yet to address our woes; we are left with no option but to stage demonstration.” However, the registrar assured us of sorting out the problem within a week, added Patel.
Meanwhile, commenting on the issue, Shukla said “We have received the memorandum from the hostellers and will sort out the problem within a week.”

“We want to continue to meet the needs of the community by giving them bottled water until this crisis is over,” said Kim Murdough, with West Court Street Church of God.
Murdough is not happy about the state closing water distribution sites across the city.
She said while she doesn’t agree with the state’s decision, her church is stepping up to make sure everyone has safe water after the state steps out.
We already distributed food to the community.
This is an ongoing thing we will do,” Murdough said.
Murdough and church members said they can’t do it alone and are now accepting donations to make sure there is enough water to keep going.
Because it hasn’t been fully resolved.
Because our neighbors come first,” Murdough said.
She is confident enough people will support the effort until all of the lead service lines are replaced in the city.
However long that takes.

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Michigan officials say the tap water in Flint, Michigan, is safe, leading the governor’s office to stop distributing free bottled water.
State testing has shown Flint’s water supply has passed federal standards for nearly two years.
Officials say there is less than a week’s worth of bottled water left to distribute, but the supply might dwindle faster as residents react to the news.
Local officials aren’t happy with the decision; they say the trust between Flint residents and the state has yet to be repaired, and that there is still concern about existing lead pipes in the city.
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But a lack of proper water treatment caused dangerous levels of lead to get into the water.
The supply was switched back in 2015, but the damage was done.
Residents, including children, had toxic amounts of lead in their blood.

The potentially cancer-causing chemical GenX has been detected in untreated drinking water in a small town that lies across the Ohio River from a Chemours plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia.
GenX was not detected in tests done by Chemours after it passed through the Little Hocking Water Association’s activated carbon water filtration system and then distributed to about 12,000 customers.
But in a notification letter to the association’s customers this week, General Manager John Hanning wrote that “there is a serious question as to whether the kind of carbon filtration used at Little Hocking will effectively remove any GenX before it enters your drinking water.” The Fayetteville Observer featured Little Hocking’s water problems in a four-part series last month about GenX and its chemical cousin, known as PFOA or C8, which was used for decades at the plant in West Virginia, and at Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant near the Cumberland-Bladen County line.
DuPont responded by installing activated carbon filtration systems for Little Hocking and other nearby towns with contaminated water.
But high levels of GenX have been found in the Cape Fear River, in private wells and in public drinking water from Cumberland County to the coast.
No human health studies have been completed on GenX.
Afterward, the EPA became concerned that GenX had also contaminated water supplies in Ohio and West Virginia.
That’s far less than the 140 parts per trillion that North Carolina established as a health standard for drinking water after GenX was found to have contaminated public water supplies in this state.
Levels of GenX above the state’s health goal have been found in 190 private wells surrounding the Fayetteville Works plant.
In North Carolina, researchers are trying to determine whether GenX and a host of other contaminants can effectively be screened out of public drinking water supplies downstream of the Chemours plant.

LAKE ELMO, Minn. (KMSP) – The City of Lake Elmo has issued a red alert over a high level of chemicals in the town’s drinking supply, with officials saying they’re taking a well and a water tower out of service this week to address the issue.
1 well, while in recent days other area residents have complained of brown water in their homes.
"This has been a burden on the people of Lake Elmo," said Justin Bloyer, the town’s interim mayor.
The chemicals in question first gained notoriety as an ingredient in Scotchguard and other products made by Twin Cities-based company 3M, who agreed to pay $850 million–the largest environmental settlement in state history–last month over the company’s dumping of PFCs in the east Metro.
Time, however, is running out on a solution.
"[After that] we won’t be able to provide water to anyone."
In order to correct this week’s problems Lake Elmo is taking both well No.
1 offline while increasing pressure from two other wells, planning to flush both offline systems at a high water pressure Wednesday morning in an attempt to rid it of chemicals.
Crews are also flushing hydrants across the city sporadically and instruct residents to run cold water for roughly 10 minutes Wednesday afternoon until the water clears.
"I’ve been hearing a lot about the water issues and that it’s very dangerous to be drinking so I just buy bottled water for me and my kids."

Akiveedu: The women of Dalita Peta in Pedakapavaram village in Akiveedu mandal are facing acute drinking water problem even before onset of summer.
The water supplied by the Panchayati was fully contaminated and not fit to drink as the Panchayati officials did not filter it.
Women of the locality expressed their agony that the Panchayat officials had been supplying the contaminated water to Dalita Peta only while other areas of the village were getting filtered water.
They alleged that the fishpond wastewater was directly released into the irrigation channels from where the Panchayat was lifting the water to supply to Dalita Peta.
The colony women alleged that the Panchayat officials were showing apathy on the Dalita Peta in the village.
Meanwhile, drinking water tanks in almost all the villages in Akiveedu mandal exhausted before summer.
Almost all the paddy fields have been converted into fish ponds in about 15 Grama Panchayats in the mandal, causing contamination of drinking water.
Following the contamination of water, all Panchayats have ready to set up alum treatment plants, which were stopped at the foundation stone-level.
There might be a severe drinking water problem if the situation continued like this, the villagers expressed fears.

This story is part of our series Water at Risk, which looks at some of the risks to the water supply facing parts of Canada, South Africa and the Middle East.
As conservationists and organizations around the globe mark World Water Day Thursday, some scientists are warning that Canada is not immune to water shortages and periods of drought.
These are the parts of the country most at risk: Prairie provinces All three Prairie provinces, stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the shore of Hudson Bay, are vulnerable to drought, says David Price, a scientist for Natural Resources Canada who models climate change outlooks.
A little of the moisture makes it over the mountains, but as summer temperatures rise, the risk of drought across Alberta, Saskatchewan and even Manitoba will grow, he said.
Climate change could mean even hotter summers in the region, making it more vulnerable to drought.
British Columbia has been dependent on snowpack to provide moisture through the spring and summer, but it may get more rain in winter, which would run off the land rather than melting slowly as snow does, Bonsal said.
is accustomed to seeing lots of rain, but with places like the lower Fraser region and Vancouver Island seeing less of it, they’ll have to rely more and more on water reservoirs, according to Pomeroy.
In fact, the shortage has prompted water restrictions in the province and instances of hydrological drought, which is when lakes, rivers and ground water supplies are depleted.
He predicts not much change in Yukon and N.W.T.
Climate change models vary in their predictions of whether water levels in the Great Lakes will rise or fall as weather patterns change.

Four children are now receiving treatment for infections which may be linked to the water supply at the RHC in Glasgow.
Health Secretary Shona Robison has apologised to patients and families affected.
NHSGGC said it is working with experts from Health Protection Scotland, Health Facilities Scotland and Scottish Water.
An NHSGGC spokesman said: "These bacteria can pose a risk to patients whose immunity is compromised, however we have put in place robust infection control measures to protect our patients.
"We have now extended this testing and infection control measures to four wards treating the most immunity compromised patients in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital to ensure that we take every precaution."
The spokesman added: "Three children continue to receive treatments for infections that may be linked to bacteria found in the water supply.
"There are no reports of any patients being infected by bacteria from water in the adult wards."
A series of infection control measures were introduced to the affected RHC wards at the weekend and water filters are to be installed.
He added: "The news of contamination of the water supply in the cancer ward at the children’s hospital in Glasgow has caused understandable worry and concern for parents of very sick children."
"I have been assured by the health board that they have indeed been keeping parents informed.

Nileswaram: As summer intensifies, water scarcity is becoming more acute by the day, but two major water supply projects planned for Kasaragod district are still on paper.
Both projects would draw water from the Karyamcode river.
While one project would benefit Nileswaram and Kanjangad municipalities and Kinalur-Karinthalam panchayat, the other would solve the drinking water issues of Kayyur-Cheemeni, Cheruvathur, Pilicode, Valiyaparamba, Padanna and Thrikaripur panchayats.
The Kerala Water Authority (KWA) has already prepared the project report for the latter.
It was also made part of the budget proposals following the intervention of M Rajagopalan MLA.
However, no follow-up has taken place owing to the lackadaisical attitude of the authorities.
Measures to prepare the project report for supplying adequate drinking water to Nileswaram and Kanjangad municipalities and Kinalur-Karinthalam panchayat, where the water shortage is more severe, are yet to be taken up.
In addition to these projects, if the Palayi shutter-cum-bridge is built, almost the entire district would be spared of water shortage.
At present, some areas in Neeleswaram and Kanjangad municipalities and the coastal panchayats depend solely on saline water.
People in these areas have been demanding safe drinking water supply for years.

According to the official data, around 65 per cent population in Jammu and Kashmir have access to tap water of which 34.7 per cent get water from treated sources and 29.2 percent from untreated sources.
The rest population gets water from springs, lakes, canals and other water bodies.
Medical experts are of the opinion that the percentage of people in J&K suffering from various abdominal disorders, including liver and kidney ailments are the result of consumption of untreated water.
There has been sharp increase in water borne diseases for the past several years which health experts in their reports had mentioned that these diseases had emerged due to supplying of “contamination and unfiltered” water to the people.
A PHE official wishing anonymity said, “The rickety apparatus for water testing, and poor state of existing water supply schemes was resulting in poor quality of drinking water in Kashmir.” He added that in many areas of Kashmir, especially the rural ones, water was supplied through pumping stations that neither had a filtration plant, nor a reservoir.
“The water is just lifted and pumped, without any treatment.
However, people complain that unfiltered and muddy tap water was being supplied to them without any filtration being done.
In J&K thousands of water supply schemes were taken up for execution over the years, majority of them have not been completed thus forcing people to consume water from the contaminated sources.
Official sources said that around 1,900 water supply schemes have been started by the successive governments in the eight years in the state.
While for Leh and Kargil districts of Ladakh region, 149 such schemes have been allotted.