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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
41 water refill shops have deficient systems: city health office
THERE is no truth to the propaganda spread by some water refilling stations that the water they sell has therapeutic effects and can cure diseases such as cancer.
This as Engineer Arthur Killip, sanitary inspector of the Baguio City Health Services Office (CHSO), informed water refillers in a meeting on Tuesday that there is no scientific study to back this claim and that this form of advertisement is meant only to lure in more buyers.
Meanwhile, with the recent announcement that consumers should be cautious in buying drinking water, Baguio Association of Purified and Mineral Water Refillers (BAPMWR) president Nellie Olairez said buyers were now more discriminating.
The group earlier said selling a 5-gallon "purified water" for P15 to P20 and other promos like buy one, take one for the same price should be suspected because the water being sold might not be purified as claimed, adding it might even be tap water or that it did not go through the complete process of filtration and sterilization.
The BAPMWR initially identified 10 water-refilling stations that sell water that did not go through the complete filtration process.
In its latest report, however, this went up to 41. This is aside from 27 water shops that did not undergo a water operators' course, a requisite before the issuance of business and sanitation permits.
This development, meantime, prompted the CHSO and the BAPMWR to schedule an inspection of all water-refilling stations in the city to ascertain their compliance to the requirements, from September 6 to 20. (RO)
(September 6, 2006 issue)
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