Greater Noida residents seek pipeline audit after suspected water contamination

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Officials during an inspection aft  respective  residents fell sick  pursuing  alleged depletion  of contaminated drinking water, prompting wellness  concerns and complaints of sewage mixing with the proviso   line, successful  Greater Noida's Delta 1 sector, Thursday, January 8, 2026.

Officials during an inspection aft respective residents fell sick pursuing alleged depletion of contaminated drinking water, prompting wellness concerns and complaints of sewage mixing with the proviso line, successful Greater Noida's Delta 1 sector, Thursday, January 8, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

After implicit 15 residents of Delta 1 successful the Greater Noida country of Gautam Buddha Nagar territory fell sick implicit the past 4 days, complaining of escaped motions and tummy symptom aft allegedly consuming contaminated drinking water, demands grew connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) for a imperishable sewage monitoring system, regular laboratory testing, pipeline audits, and exigency protocols to forestall specified incidents successful the future. Locals blamed sewage-mixed h2o for the illnesses. However, the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) has not confirmed immoderate contamination.

“As per accusation received, contaminated drinking h2o was supplied successful Delta 1 assemblage artifact C, 152-202, successful Greater Noida, starring to unwellness of astatine slightest 15 people. We request contiguous enactment from the authorities connected precocious TDS and sewer-mixed water. It is mandatory to instrumentality a imperishable monitoring system, regular lab-test, pipeline audit, and exigency protocol to forestall contaminated h2o proviso successful future,” a missive by the Gautam Buddha Nagar Vikas Samiti addressed to the main enforcement serviceman of GNIDA said.

Residents said they had raised repeated complaints with GNIDA for respective months, but alleged that the occupation persisted. Locals besides complained of receiving yellow-coloured h2o successful their homes for days, with respective radical processing ailments specified arsenic diarrhoea and vomiting.

Published - January 08, 2026 09:08 p.m. IST

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