Study reveals city potable water rife with bacteria

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  • Residents of Kathmandu Valley have been forced to drink water infected with coliform bacteria such as Vibrio cholera and Salmonella typhi, a new study reveals.
  • Tests showed that 78.75 percent of the 758 samples collected from different sources including tap, tube-well, well, tanker, jar, and bottled water in 2016-2017 had coliform.