Panic because of water poisoning

Nearly ten thousand people in My Dinh 2 urban area are extremely confused when they know that their daily water sources for many years have high levels of arsenic. While waiting for the results of water sampling of the authorities in Hanoi, people in this urban area are struggling because there is no water for living because of the supply cut.

Hundreds of suffering

The incident originated from July 2, in the working session with Hanoi People's Committee on the management of domestic water quality in the city, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long proposed Hanoi city family. only the operation of My Dinh 2 Water Supply Station because there is a level of arsenic in the water which is nearly 4 times higher than the permitted level. This information immediately caused a stir, especially over 1,200 households (approximately 7,000 people) who are using the water provided by this station.

My Dinh 2 water supply station must temporarily suspend water supply to handle the 'arsenic incident'

In the afternoon of July 5, at CT 4, My Dinh 2 urban area, many people were forced to use buckets and pots to ask for water in the surrounding areas because before that My Dinh 2 Water Supply Station temporarily stopped supplying water. to carry out the remedial measures required by Hanoi authorities. Many households in the building had to buy water bottles for temporary use. Meet the PV on the first floor, Mr. Le Huy Bay - Head of the residential building CT4 said: 'Many families have' evacuated '. Anyone with an acquaintance is a few days away. Any house near me goes home . ' Also according to Mr. Bay, My Dinh 2 Water Supply Station stopped supplying water for several days but did not inform us. 'It is not necessary to know how high the level of arsenic-contaminated water is, but at least it is necessary to supply water for us to use for the minimum needs' , said Mr. Bay. must suffer hundreds of sufferings, not having bathing water, washing . and especially flushing toilets.

Mr. Quang, the owner of the 10th floor of CT4 building is also annoyed: Currently, we do not see any signs of itching and disease but if it is true that the arsenic concentration exceeds 4 times, it is also very worried.'I have been using arsenic-contaminated water for many years now, but I have not seen anything but I know it' incubated ', who knows , ' Quang said.

Meanwhile, on the morning of July 5, the leader of My Dinh 2 People's Committee held a meeting with the leaders of the neighborhood groups to 'reassure' the spirit of the people in the area about the situation of 'poisonous' water in the area. table but did not offer any solution to solve the situation on the grounds that the ward has no jurisdiction to resolve.

People suspected, carrying contaminated water themselves to analyze

According to a report of the Hanoi Department of Construction, My Dinh 2 Water Supply Station was operated and put into operation in June 2004 with a design capacity of 1,200m ³ / day and night with the source of groundwater exploitation. The current capacity of the station is about 1,000m ³ / day and night and provides water for about 1,290 consumers (including schools and agencies).

Residents of CT4 building had to go and ask every bucket of water to use

Operation process, Housing and Urban Services Company Limited - HUD is the construction investor and also the management and operation unit. My Dinh 2 water supply station has signed a periodic water quality inspection contract with Hanoi Preventive Medicine Center. However, while the conclusion of the working group of the Ministry of Health is that the arsenic content exceeds 4 times allowed, according to the latest test form of Hanoi Preventive Medical Center on 14/5/2014, the function Arsenic content is 0.001mg / l - within the allowable limits. This shows two possibilities: The water quality of My Dinh 2 Water Supply Station is unstable or the inspection and analysis process has 'problems'.

Meanwhile, according to private sources of Traffic Newspaper, at the time of June 2013, when realizing that there are many signs of clean water, the quality is not as good as dirty, smelly, fishy . households in residential areas have taken water samples to bring to Vietnam Science and Technology Institute (18B Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi) to do tests and tests. The results showed that the arsenic concentration in water exceeded 3 times permitted by the Ministry of Health standards.

After having the test results, the households in the residential area have reflected to the Management Board of the building and My Dinh 2 water supply station, they are committed by those responsible for these two units, until August 2013. will definitely handle the situation of heavy arsenic contamination. Then they gave out to the households in each building a safe water certificate. Since then, it was thought that the water source was safe. People only 'fell back' when the inspection team of the Ministry of Health took samples of water for testing and reported on the media that the arsenic content in the water did not decrease but also exceeded 4 times allowed.

According to medical experts, arsenic , with the common scientific name is arsenic or arsenic is very toxic (4 times higher than mercury). Arsenic penetrates into humans through the way of drinking water, air in polluted areas, skin infections due to continuous contact with water sources and polluted air. When entered into the human body, arsenic often accumulates in the brain, skin tissues, nails, hair, teeth, bones and in epithelial parts such as the lining of the palate, esophagus, stomach, and small intestine. High acute intoxication. According to many scientists, arsenic can cause up to 19 different diseases. If poisoning with arsenic at small doses but accumulating for a long time, after 5-10 years will cause: Fatigue, nausea, red blood cells and white blood cells decrease. The two most common diseases caused by arsenic are skin and lung cancer. Many people have skin darkening syndrome, congenital keratosis, changes in skin pigmentation, dark spots, bright spots in the palms, legs, hard horns and necrosis .