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Fluoride and Arsenic Poisoning Grips Assam
Guwahati (ABC Live): The ground water quality in Assam is deteriorating day by days due to mining activities in state. Guwahati (ABC Live): The ground water quality in Assam is deteriorating day by days due to mining activities in state. In recent nearly 58000 water samples from different water sources were colleted to test the […]
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Kerala: ‘Fluorosis endemic to Alappuzha’
Experts blame drinking water supply system for rising prevalence ALAPPUZHA: Speakers at a continuing medical education (CME) programme on fluorosis here have warned that the disorder has become endemic to the districts of Alappuzha and Palakkad. The programme was organised by the Fluorosis Research Centre (FRC) at T.D. Medical College here. Experts said the prevalence […]
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Untreated water takes toll on villagers’ health
Khem karan, March 6 Sajjan Singh, 55, a resident of nearby Assal Uttar village is waiting for the doctor at the local community health centre here. He can’t speak much, his body aches, his teeth have turned yellow and dis-coloured awfully, causing premature decay. But he is not alone as out of the 20 patients […]
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Fluorosis crippling villagers in Punjab
Khemkaran Sector (Punjab), Mar 5 (ANI): Fluorosis arising from excessive fluoride content in water cripples villagers and causes severe deformities in Punjab. Besides being affected by deformed limbs, villagers also suffer from cataract, and premature ageing. “The villagers are facing a host of health problems due to the hard water. Knees are severely deformed, eyesight […]
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India-Pakistan border residents facing a new danger -polluted water!
Khamkaran Sector (Indo Pak Border) March 5, (ANI): There was a time when families living in the border villages of Punjab had to routinely migrate to safe places whenever tension with Pakistan aggravated. Today people living in the villages are facing a new danger –death due to contaminated water. Over 200,000 people in more than […]
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Govt sinks its teeth into fluorosis battle
With the national capital fast becoming an endemic area for fluorosis, a disease that cannot be treated, the Delhi government has decided to enter into a “strategic and technical partnership” with a agency that is specialised on the disease to stem the spread. The partnership of Fluorosis Foundation with the Health Department of Delhi government […]
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A land that ‘waters down’ dreams of married life
ONGOLE: Almost 600 young men in four villages are finding it to difficult to get a girl in marriage. For no fault of their own. The girls in the neighbouring parts find fault with the water they drink! Yes, boys raised on flouride-contaminated water are, they believe, unfit for marriage. A problem, hitherto considered a […]
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Fluorosis cripples villagers in Sonbhadra village in UP
Sonbhadra (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 22: A large number of villagers of Sonbhadra village in Uttar Pradesh are suffering from fluorosis due to the excessive fluoride content in the ground water that these villages draw to drink. They are facing the risk of becoming handicapped due to excessive fluorosis Chopan, Dudhi and Myorpur and Babhni Blocks. […]
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Villagers fight deadly fluoride
PARLAKHEMUNDI: For the villagers of Jogipadu and Padampur under Gumma block, the only source of drinking water is a ‘nala’, which is located 5 km away from their villages. Ironically, these villages have over 10 borewells and are just a few kilometres away from the district headquarters. The reason that has kept them away from […]
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The need to provide technologies to tackle fluoride, arsenic, and other contaminants in drinking water
Union Minister for Rural Development Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has called for ensuring the availability of safe drinking water in rural areas of the country. Addressing a two-day long National Rural Workshop on Water supply and Sanitation in Rural India here today Dr. Singh stressed the importance of development of suitable technologies for addressing drinking […]
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