Hi Guys, This time I intend to draw your attention towards the drinking water facilities on roads in Metro cities.

The Metro cities like Delhi faces many problems due to lack of drinking water specifically in summers. And when you are out of your home and you feel thirsty, then you can not find any source of safe drinking water, yeah but Pepsi/coke/mineral water bottles are available in abundance.

Though nowadays people use RO's and water purification systems and mineral water dispensers at home/offices. These facilities are still out of reach for many people.

By now most of the people must have seen so called 'Refridgerated Drinking Water Trollies (Sorry I didnt get any photo of the same so I had draw it myself.)

For a poor man, drinking water from a trolly, located on a footpath or bus stop or busy roads, is the only option.  The price is cheap : only 50 paise per glass + health.

Yes it's true because the same glasses are used by hundreds of people everyday.

And I myself have seen the way these 'Trolly wallas' wash these glasses.

They just hold it near a small tap which is not at the top of the trolly, but it is on your opposite side connected to a small water box having capicity of 7-8 Ltrs of cleaning water. But you would be amazed to see and observe that there is hardly any water in that box. They just take the glass from one person after he has finished and they pretend like washing the same glass properly to other person waiting to have one glass. However they just put a few drops and move hands as if they are washing it properly.

Normally their trick works because they have 8-9 glasses so they dont give the same glass to a new customer which was left unwashed by the customer who just left. But by the time you notice, you will realise that you are the proud owner of the glass which was used by anonymous people having severe infectious diseases and it was served to unwashed by the same fellow Trolly Walla.

Apart from the hygiene issue I really suspect the quality of the water catered to people.

This raises a few questions:

1) Is the cleanliness in these trollies ensured checked properly by any Govt authority on a regular basis.(I reallly dont think so...)

2) Are they procuring the drinking water from safe/ reliable source (Again I dont think so)

3) How pure is this water ? And what steps have been taken to improve/ ensure quality of the drinking water service.

3) How do they refridgerate the water, is it electric cooling or dirty factory ice  is mixed with water.

4) Whom to report all of these issues and how the culprit could be penalised.

"What we want is that our country should love its people as much as people love it."

Regards

Mukul.Max