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Fluorosis dogs Boddavaram
KAKINADA: High fluoride content in drinking water is crippling Boddavaram village of Kotananduru mandal in East Godavari district. Bone deformities, yellowing of teeth, joint pains and general weakness, caused by fluorosis are seen in many villagers. Due to this, the locals have stopped consuming the water supplied from the protected drinking water scheme. Instead, they […]
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Fluorosis strikes Unnao village
Marxnagar (Unnao), January 30: About 70 km from Lucknow, this village in Unnao is fighting water problems of a different kind. The high fluoride content in the soil here has contaminated the water in their wells. As a result, most of the 400-odd villagers suffer from fluorosis. Sumangal is among the more seriously affected. He […]
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Polluted water compounds bachelor woes
Single men in this small Rajasthan town are finding it difficult to end their bachelorhood, as not many families are prepared to marry their daughters to men from a place known for heavy fluoride content in its water. Many residents of Dudu, about 60 km from here, and surrounding villages are affected by various orthopaedic […]
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Fluoride levels in Palam water way over permissible limit: Study
New Delhi,January 16: A three-year survey by the Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation has found that 34.8 per cent of the children, below the age group of 8 years, living in Palam are afflicted with dental fluorosis. The levels of fluoride in the drinking water here was found to be higher than permissible limits […]
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A village hit by fluoride
NAWADA: About 80 per cent of the residents of Kachhariadih village in Rajouli sub-division of Nawada district, mostly dalits, are disabled due to the excessive presence of fluoride in their drinking water. People suffering from humps on their backs or lameness are a common sight in the village. “The present level of fluoride in drinking […]
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Tata to purify water in Andhra Pradesh villages
Faced with high fluoride content in ground water in several villages, Andhra Pradesh has enlisted the support of a Tata group company for providing cost-effective technologies for purifying water in the affected areas. Tata Projects Limited Managing Director K.P. Singh Saturday called on Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy here to demonstrate an economically viable water […]
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Nalco ‘in dock’ over toxic gas leakage
ANGUL, Sept. 16. — Once again, the mini-ratna National Aluminium Company is ‘in the dock’ in the wake of accusations by its peripheral villages of toxic gas leakage from the smelter plant here on Monday last. The agitating villagers of Tulasipal, Languliabeda met the Angul collector on Wednesday and complained against Nalco for releasing toxic […]
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Nalco plant: Experts to study crop damage
BHUBANESWAR: A multi-disciplinary team with experts from the fields of process technology, atmospheric physics and chemistry, meteorology and agriculture will study the reason behind crop damage around Nalco smelter plant at Angul, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik informed the Assembly on Friday. Replying to a calling attention notice on alleged leakage of poisonous gas from the […]
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Potable water as thirst choice
Women collect water from a roadside municipality tap at Sagalipara, on the outskirts of Guwahati. Picture by UB Photos Sustainable solutions to drinking water contamination, such as rainwater harvesting, are urgently needed Hundreds of villages on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in central Assam are affected today by fluoride contamination of water sources. The […]
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S. Delhi villages hit by fluorosis
NEW DELHI, India, May 19 — SEVEN VILLAGES in south Delhi have been affected by fluorosis because of contaminated underground water, according to a study done by Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation. The report has revealed the presence of 32.0 mg of fluoride per litre in underground water used for drinking purposes in these […]
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