Explained: Why are tubewells in some Punjab villages drawing up muddy water?

While villagers blame highly polluted Chitti Bein, which carries toxic industrial affluent from several cities, for getting flooded and polluting the groundwater source

Post recent floods some of villages in Jalandhar’s Shahkot and Kapurthala’s Sultanpur Lodhi have complained that their tubewells are pumping out contaminated and muddy groundwater. While villagers blame highly polluted Chitti Bein, which carries toxic industrial affluent from several cities, for getting flooded and polluting the groundwater source, The Indian Express explains if dirty flood water can get as deep as 300 ft below the earth in such a short period.