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The Delhi Jal Board on 4 December 2019 said 98% of the over 4,200 samples collected from across the city were found to be “fit” for drinking. Of the 4,204 samples, 4,128 proved ‘satisfactory’ while 76 samples were found ‘unsatisfactory’, the report stated. The water utility collected five samples each from the 272 municipal wards in the city over a 10-day-long drive between November 20 and November 30. The samples were collected randomly from five households in every ward. “The percentage of samples treated at the water treatment plants fared well Wazirabad (95.71%), Haiderpur (100%), Tahirpur (94.33%), Nangloi (99.47%), Dwarka (98.40%), Bawana (100%), Greater Kailash (100%) and Okhla (100%),” the DJB report stated.