Khulna Hotels, Restaurants
Fresh notice on owners to serve safe water
Divisional office of the environment department here has again asked the owners of hotels and restaurants of the city to supply pure drinking water to customers.
A special team of the department, which launched a drive from February, detected presence of harmful coliform bacteria on several occasions in the drinking water served at hotels and restaurants in the city.
Coliform bacteria causes different intestinal and other serious diseases like typhoid, said eminent medicine specialist of Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) Professor Dr Abu Bakar.
Sources said, there are over a thousand hotels and restaurants in the Khulna metropolitan city most of which do not have any system to keep drinking water safe and germ-free.
These hotels and restaurants collect drinking water mostly from deep tubewells. But none of them keep or maintain it properly, said sources at Khulna office of environment department.
The chemical test of drinking water at hotels is done every month by the environment department, the sources said.
In last February, coliform bacteria was detected in drinking water of 15 hotels in the city.
In March, the bacteria was found in the water of six more hotels.
On May 23 last, a special team of Department of Environment (DoE) again detected germs in the water of 10 more hotels of the city.
After that the DoE served fresh notices on hotel owners warning them of legal action in case of supplying bacteria mixed drinking water to customers.
It also asked the hotel and restaurant owners to take preventive measures against coliform bacteria in drinking water, said Dr Tarun Kanti Shikder, director of Khulna Divisional Office of DoE.
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