During their periodic inspections, teams from Jeddah Mayoralty gathered water samples from 53 bottling plants across the city and found 28 of them not conforming to the set hygienic standards. According to Dr. Basheer Bin Mustafa Abu Najam, a senior mayoralty official, these 28 plants were ordered closed. “Water from some plants was found to be polluted and in some cases microbes were detected,” Abu Najam said. These factories, he said, had no equipment for properly distilling and cleaning the water nor did they maintain hygienic conditions. Their underground tanks were also found unhygienic. Abu Najam urged citizens to cooperate with municipal and mayoralty officials to maintain hygienic standards at water bottling plants.
