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Sambhal district magistrate Anand Kumar Singh was also instructed to set up a water treatment plant at the earliest for providing potable water to residents. BAREILLY: The National Green Tribunal has directed the UP government as well as district administration of Sambhal to ensure that no hand-pump or bore-well is used for extracting polluted water in the district. "Several people in 30 villagers have died over the last two years due to cancer and other diseases after drinking hand-pump water. "The tribunal also instructed UP Jal Nigam to ensure that potable drinking water was being supplied to all villagers in the district without any further delay. I collected water samples from these villages for lab testing and after the report arrived, we approached the tribunal..