Listen to this articleAn Indian official drinks water as his shirt is soaked with sweat. Indore's chief medical officer, Madhav ‌Prasad Hasani, told Reuters by phone that drinking water in the Bhagirathpur area of the city was contaminated due ⁠to a leak, and a water test had confirmed the presence of bacteria in the pipeline. The ‌final ‍report of the water sample collected from the affected area is awaited," Hasani said. Shravan Verma, ‌the ​district administrative officer, said authorities had deployed teams of doctors for door-to-door screening and were distributing chlorine tablets to help purify water. "We have found one leakage point that could have contaminated the water and that ⁠point has been fixed," Verma said, ​adding that officials had screened 8,571 people and identified 338 with mild symptoms.

Source: Bangkok Post January 02, 2026 08:27 UTC