Venom that flows through faucets...

It is poison that flows through drinking water pipelines across the city. People and cattle fall dead after consuming what the authorities call ‘drinking water’. Children and the aged develop various ailments, women give birth to stillborn, birds and other animals die a miserable death. Yet no one notices. None cares.
Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) officials put the blame on civic body, who in turn passes it to unscrupulous industrialists, and the blame game goes on.  Elected representatives and responsible officials consume packaged drinking water to wet their throats while leading tirades as to who should be held responsible for this.
Even when nine people died and more than 250 people fell sick after consuming drinking water at Bolakpur in the city a couple of years ago, the authorities remained insensitive. Drinking water supplied in the metro still remains highly contaminated and the thick-skinned officials and uncaring political leaders continue to drink only mineral water while doing nothing to supply pure water to the public.
 Umpteen number of highly polluting industrial estates still continue to pose grave threats to the freshwater reservoirs of the city. A report by the Central Research Institute for Dry Land Agriculture, the Manjira River and Nizam Sagar, located in the northwest of the city, are in grave danger of contamination by pollutants from the Guddapotaram-Bolaram-Patancheru industrial axis, as they are located within 15km of the freshwater source.
Clinically confirmed cancer is 11 times higher and the prevalence of heart diseases 16 times more on the outskirts of Hyderabad, according to a study published by Greenpeace India in collaboration with the Lokmanya Tilak Medical College and Occupational Health and Safety Centre, Mumbai, Community Health Cell, St John's Medical College and NIMHANS, Bangalore.
Experts say that only a full-scale medical and public health investigation carried out on a war footing will reveal the exact extent of the damage done by the callous attitudes of the higher ups.
But the officials have made sure that they get only purified water. Apparently for this purpose, a filter bed was inaugurated at Asif Nagar by Krishnababu, the then MD of Hyderabad Metro Water Service & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) on February 14, 2009.
Article 21 of Indian Constitution ensures Right to Life as a Fundamental Right.
It represents right to live in healthy atmosphere. But even after the Bholakpur tragedy, the same situation is likely to occur at many places again, with Mettuguda in Secunderabad being the most vulnerable.
According the residents of Allagadda Bavi at Mettuguda, they are being supplied contaminated water even after a lot of hue and cry has been made. The residents alleged that the water supplied to them during uneven hours and that too for a short time, was highly contaminated.