When the guest came to Suguna’s house, they offered him a cold drink, because they thought he should not drink such water. What do you think Suguna’s family must be doing for their own drinking water?

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Suguna lived in Nallamada, a village in Andhra Pradesh. Suguna's family must be either boiling the water before drinking or adding chlorine tablets to the water. Boiling kills various disease-causing microbes present in water and chlorination purifies water, making it fit for drinking.

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