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Anbumani seeks Karnataka support on Hogenakkal project
Bangalore (PTI): Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday appealed to the people of Karnataka to support the Hogenakkal Drinking Water project, being executed by Tamil Nadu. “I appeal to the people of Karnataka not to politicise the Hogenakkal issue. It is a health issue and not a political one,” Ramadoss said while speaking […]
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Fluorosis in many parts of the country
Excerpt from article titled: Health for all a long way away Luxury of water Clean drinking water is a luxury for about 75 per cent of the world’s rural population and about 150 million urban dwellers. According to WHO figures, 220 million Indians do not have access to safe drinking water, and about one million […]
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The Hogenakkal water project
BANGALORE: Even as the tension over Rajnikant’s Kuselan died down, following the actor’s apology to Kannadigas , the government on Thursday said an all-party delegation will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to impress upon him the state’s claims regarding the land dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Water resources minister Basavaraj Bommai said a 67-km […]
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MDG and India’s drinking water: racing ahead at what cost?
India has committed to the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG), officially adopted in 2002 by 189 countries. The eight MDGs range from halving, by 2015, extreme poverty to ensuring environmental sustainability. Progress is being actively tracked. It is within the goal of environmental sustainability that the issue of drinking-water and sanitation has come into […]
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Thar desert among areas facing endemic fluorosis: PCSIR experts
HYDERABAD, June 7 (APP): Thar Desert area of Sindh province is among Pakistan’s areas which are experiencing endemic fluorosis on regional scale. Muhammad Tahir Rafique, Senior Scientific Officer, Pakistan Council of Scientific Industrial Research (PCSIR) Karachi said here Friday defending his Ph.D thesis “Occurrence, Distribution and Origin of Fluoride-Rich Groundwater in the Thar Desert, Pakistan,” […]
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Tamil Nadu: Anti-fluorosis drive is yet to take off
Campaign faces roadblocks by way of misconceptions, low awareness • Studies show that caries is prevalent even among children exposed to fluoride • Fluoride can affect bones and skeleton unleashing severe pain in major joints • One main reason for contracting the disease is consumption of untreated groundwater • 66 million people in India, including […]
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Still no safe water for fluoride-affected villagers
NALHATI, May 17: The fluoride-affected people of Nashipur village under the Nalhati-I block in Birbhum are slowly dying. Although the government has made many assurances, people are not provided with the necessary treatments and safe water. Even the CPI-M led previous board of Baoutia panchayat failed to give hope to the affected people. For 16 […]
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Orissa: Districts with High Fluoride Levels
Excerpts: The government’s woes on the water front have been compounded by reports of high concentration of fluoride in ground water in 22 blocks of 12 districts. In the wake of this revelation following a survey, the fear of spread of fluorosis, a disease caused by high fluoride level in the water, has gripped these […]
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Water Aplenty, Nor a Drop to Drink
NEW DELHI, Apr 18 (IPS) – Over 37.7 million people in India are affected by water-borne diseases due to contaminated drinking water supply and an estimated 1.5 million children die of diarrhoea each year, according to newly available statistics. Compiled through collaboration between the government and the international non-government organisation (NGO) Water Aid the new […]
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Indian villagers crippled by fluoride
This is a story of a land where excess fluoride has turned the ground water into a slow poison, crippling at least 10,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousand of others in constant misery. This is the story of Nalgonda, one of the poorest and most drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The […]
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