The low quality of drinking water has constrained a substantial cross-area of subjects to purchase filtered water. As an outcome of this extending market a mushroom development of filtered water industry in the nation is seen amid the most recent couple of years.
Be that as it may, a hefty portion of the mineral water organizations were discovered offering tainted water. To screen and enhance the nature of filtered water, the legislature of Pakistan through Service of Science and Innovation has assigned the undertaking to PCRWR for quarterly observing of packaged and mineral water marks and announce the outcomes.
As indicated by the observing report for the quarter April-June, 2015, 107 examples of Mineral and Filtered water brands have been gathered from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Tando Jam, Lahore, Bahawalpur, Quetta, Peshawar, Sargodha, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Sahiwal and Karachi.
Correlation of scientific discoveries with reasonable cutoff points of Pakistan Standard Quality Control Power (PSQCA) has uncovered that 17 brands (i.e., Al - Khair, Pineo, Sky Star, Niamat, Water National, Zindagi In addition, Days Immaculate, Country, NG New Water, Mazan Unadulterated Life, Al-Haider Immaculate, Blu, Super Normal, Isberg, Jumeirah, Heaven and Afra) were discovered to be risky because of compound or microbiological sullying.
Out of those 17 perilous brands, 07 brand (Al - Khair, Pineo, Days Immaculate, Sky Star, Niamat, Water National, Country) have relatively abnormal state of Arsenic extending from 16-69 ppb than PSQCA water quality standard for arsenic (10 ppb).
The unreasonable level of arsenic can bring about different sorts of skin ailments, diabetes, kidney infections, hypertension, heart sicknesses conception deformities, dark foot illnesses and numerous sorts of growths and so forth while 06 brands (Blu, Super Common, Isberg, Jumeirah, Heaven and Afra) were discovered to be hazardous because of microbiological sullying which may bring about Cholera, Loose bowels, Diarrhea, Hepatitis, Typhoid and so on. The remaining brands were discovered hazardous because of the vicinity of more elevated amounts of Sodium and Potassium. The national quality control and observation powers ought to take legitimate activities against the organizations, which are supplying tainted filtered water to people in general and playing destruction with the general wellbeing.