Maputo, 28 Feb (AIM) – Mozambique’s Northern Regional Water Board (AdRN) has denied rumors that went viral on social media claiming that it lacks chemicals to treat drinking water for the northern city of Nampula.
Emerson Chembene, director of the Nacala Operational Area, speaking to reporters on Thursday in order to deny the rumors, explained that “the level of water turbidity in some parts of the city is within the legal parameters.”
In order to deny the rumors, Chembene took the opportunity to show reporters the process by which water is treated, claiming that the company’s operational parameters are in good condition.
“These parameters tell us, at each stage, what the optimum quantity is, depending on the turbidity of the bulk water that we have to add to the system in order to have the water quality required by both the World Health Organization (WHO) and by the Mozambican regulatory body. Each sample of treated water is taken to the laboratory and tested”, he said.
According to Chembene, the company maintains all the “appropriate chemicals and, at this very moment, we have stocks that last up to seven days. And within three days, we will receive a larger quantity, for more than thirty days.”
However, he admitted that in some cases, the water coming out of the taps has some turbidity “as a result of infiltration of unsuitable water in those places where the pipes are damaged, especially in suburban neighborhoods.”
Over the last year, AdRN also refused rumors that went viral on social media claiming that the sources of drinking water for the city of Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado, had been poisoned by Islamist terrorists. The company explained that what might have caused great alarm is the fact that terrorists attacked the village of Pulo, near an area known as Ponto A, which is eight kilometers from the Water Treatment Plant (WTP), which supplies water to the town of Metuge and the city of Pemba.
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