Dirty water vegetables are being sold in the market

Administration silent on dirty water vegetables

Dirty water vegetables .Vegetables from dirty water are a reality in the markets of every city today. In the name of fresh vegetables, these poisonous vegetables are easily available from the markets to our fridge, kitchen and food. Vegetables from dirty water do not have any special characteristics.

Dirty water vegetables means growing vegetables using water from gutters, drains and factories for irrigating vegetables and also using dirty water to wash vegetables. But it is very dangerous for health. Every day crores of people of the country are forced to use these vegetables.
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Outside every city, where there is a drainage or treatment plant for the city’s dirty water, the land around it is purchased by the land mafia. In which vegetables are grown by farmers or laborers and the vegetables from the dirty water of the cities are sent for sale in the same city. It is not that only farmers grow vegetables in dirty water. This is highly sponsored and the result of collective profit and collective indifference.

Such vegetables are grown in the areas around cities. It is associated with some influential person or land mafia. Due to which the common citizen does not even try to deal with them and even if he complains, the decisions are taken and sold in the market and the administration gets headlines in the newspapers by destroying crops of a few bighas for show.
Generally, dirty water drainage or treatment plants are installed away from the city or in deserted areas of the city. Due to which the common man has very little or no access to visit there. And treatment plants are also in the hands of government or private companies which have to clean the dirty water and send it forward for irrigation.

To reduce the cost of cleaning water, gutter water is spread around so that it dries quickly. In such a situation, farming starts in the surrounding lands. There is an agriculture department in every city to monitor the quality of irrigation water. But then irrigation is being done with moderately clean water released from the treatment plant.
Not only are the vegetables in the gutter water harmful, but the crops growing in the water released due to negligence of the treatment plant that cleans the gutter water are also poisonous.

How to avoid vegetables from gutter water ?
(1) Generally only crops like spinach, cabbage, radish, green onion and leafy vegetables are grown in gutter water. Avoid using these.
(2) Wash such vegetables by keeping them in hot salt water for some time and then wash them with clean water.
(3) Avoid eating such vegetables raw.

Cooking does not reduce the toxins and heavy metals in gutter water vegetables. But food contaminants (bacteria and fungus like E-coli) can be reduced. State governments and the Center will have to make strong laws to protect vegetables and crops from dirty water. Strict laws will have to be made not only for farming in dirty water but also for the drainage and cleaning of dirty water in the city.
Foodman has always been in the forefront regarding cleanliness in food and natural farming. And has been working to educate its readers about the dangers of market food as well as to bring awareness among the public for prevention and making a collective effort.