KUWAIT, May 21 (KUNA) -- The drinking water pumped by the Ministry of Electricity and Water is clean, fit for human consumption, and goes in line with the internatinal specifications , Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity and Water Ahmad Al-Jassar said Saturday.
Al-Jassar also noted that the ministry's responsibility for water ends with its reaching to the tenement's meter, then starts the responsibility of the landowner.
Further, Al-Jassar said, in a press conference today, in response to claims in media outlets on the unfitness of drinking water in Kuwait that, "the ministry produces its water from distillation plants, then it pumps it to the consumers, and the ministry's meters are operated in accordance with required world specifications." He added that the ministry conducts accurate daily and monthly tests on the samples which are gathered from various areas, distillation plants, and mixture plants, storage tanks, and pumping plants as well as points at the end of network including schools, mosques, and state public utilities.
Moreover, he said that the ministry is conducting chemical and bacteriological tests in what includes the analysis of water samples from 115 sites within the public network along with conducting water quality test, noting that late month saw 3,024 chemical analysis, and 2,074 bacteriological examinations of water.
He also pointed out the ministry's responsibility is for producing a safe water, and pumping it in such sound quality through the network, namely that its responsibility stops before the consumers' meters which are entrusted with the facility's or tenement's owner, advising consumers to monitor the validity of their internal water grid.
Such consumer follow-up includes the existence of suitable filters, clean storage tanks, alongside conducting necessary maintenance for all above-mentioned equipment, he explained.
Finally, he said that the ministry held this conference out of its keenness on elucidating facts, and the combating of rumors among people, noting that the ministry has a specialized center for developing water which is in charge of monitoring and following up the quality and safety of drinking water, adding that this center issues monthly reports on the kind and quality of water which the ministry produces. - Kuna