The Hon. D.V. Chanaka

¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Speaker, I raised this yesterday. The testing began in December. From about 20 December to today, 51 days have passed. If you were not going to use this stock and were importing another batch of hydrated lime, you should have called a new tender or rejected this consignment. However, I have videos indicating that not only samples but the containers have been dispatched to relevant places. The tender specified 10 mg. The first lab report shows 14 mg; the second, 13 mg; the third, 12 mg; then 11.5 mg. It decreases from 14 to 12 over days, suggesting repeated testing. If both NWSDB and SLS checked this, why keep testing? This is strange. You cannot ban it if the value drops to 11–12 within two weeks. Then, suddenly, NWSDB requests SLS to raise the limit from 10 to 12 mg. New Zealand uses 25 mg, but their water and formula differ; Sri Lanka’s limit of 10 mg is based on local pH. This looks like a racket: tender at 10 mg, tests show 14, 13, 12, 11.x, and SLS then raises to 12. Some of these have already been distributed. If these are used, what happens? No new tenders or containers have arrived. How will you purify water? Please do a proper investigation and send this back if necessary.