PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government here on Friday sought a report from the Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar on the standard of quality of drinking water available for the dwellers of Peshawar within a month.
According to the Local Government Department, the people living in Peshawar were being provided different quality of drinking water in separate areas. However, the LG Department said some people were extracting water from the wells for drinking purposes which was not safer for their health.
The Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar has been directed to provide samples of drinking water from different areas of the district for evaluating its quality whether it was safe for drinking or not.
The sanitation department would collect water samples from different areas and after a laboratory test, its reports would be sent to the provincial government.