Overview
- Authorities have confirmed at least six deaths, with some reports citing 10 to 16, and health data show 310 hospital admissions since December 24 including 25 in intensive care.
- Investigators are looking beyond an initial focus on a police chowki toilet built over a main water line, with heavy-metal testing underway on the implicated pipeline.
- Roughly 200 personnel are inspecting about 1,000 sewer access chambers and mapping older, high‑risk pipes, while the city’s 105 water tankers are being tested for chlorine levels and bacterial contamination.
- The High Court ordered tanker deliveries to affected localities, the municipal corporation added four to the 30 tankers already serving the area, and officials are chlorinating pipelines and advising residents to boil water.
- Residents report avoiding tap water and turning to bottled or tanker supplies, straining household budgets, as political tensions surfaced during opposition visits to the neighborhood.