The government has completed the construction of a new water system in Al-Baradah village, after contaminated drinking water had led to an outbreak of typhoid.
At the same time, a committee formed by the public prosecutor, cleared the contractor of the pipes of charges of polluting the water in the old water system. A committee statement explained that it is “practically impossible for the contractor to pump sewage water inside the pipes.”
It added that if that were the case, the central water pipe as well as the water pipes in all the surrounding villages would have also been contaminated.
The report further indicated that the contamination could have resulted from connecting the water pipes to an old water network, without purifying the water, adding that it could have also been the result of illegal house connections.
In related news, the prosecution office ordered the detainment of some officials in Al-Baradah village for four days pending investigations. The detainees include chairman of Al-Baradah’s local council Ibrahim Abdel Moemen, Salah Eddin Al-Seman, in charge of the village’s resources, Sayed Madbouly and Salam Al-Sayed, in charge of the village’s water pipes.
When typhoid erupted, Adly Hussein, governor of Qaliubiya, accused the contractor of polluting the drinking water in the pipes. Around 311 people in Al-Baradah were infected with typhoid two months before, but all have recovered since.
Source: Yasmine Saleh / Daily News Egypt, 09 Sep 2009
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