India, July 14 -- The recent heavy rainfall in the catchment areas of dams supplying water to Pune city has led to a sharp rise in turbidity levels in raw water reaching treatment plants, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials said on Tuesday.

Following this, the PMC on Tuesday issued an advisory asking residents to take additional precautions before consuming drinking water. As per the PMC water supply department, the problem is particularly acute at the Parvati water treatment plant, where the turbidity of the receiving raw water has exceeded the plant's designed treatment capacity. As a result, it has become difficult to bring turbidity levels completely under control during the treatment process said the officials.

The civic bod...