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Heat, fluoride makes life miserable
GULBARGA: Life in Gulbarga has become unbearable in the scorching summer heat and drinking water contaminated with fluoride. More than 322 villages in the district are supplied water with a high flouride content. This is the only source of water for more than 25 per cent villages in the district. People are unaware of the […]
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Orissa villagers demand shutdown of polluting NALCO plant
[India News]: Anngal (Orissa), Mar.18 : Residents of several villages in Orissa’s Anngal district have launched a series of protests in the area over the hardships that they are facing due to the pollution coming out from a factory run by the public sector National Aluminum Company (NALCO). Residents of at least five villages adjoining […]
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‘Prevent fluorosis through nutrition’
Tamilnadu is one of the 17 States in the country grappling with the ‘fluoride problem,’ according to K P Anbazhagan, Minister for Information and Publicity and Local Administration. Inaugurating a national workshop on ‘Nutritional Effects on Fluorosis’, here yesterday, he said, excessive fluoride content in water resulted in different types of fluorosis. ‘Fluoride affects teeth […]
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AP Water Project For Fluoride-hit Districts
In an effort to provide safe drinking water to the fluoride-affected villages in the state, the Andhra Pradesh government has announced a Rs 600-crore water supply project. “We will somehow augment the required finance to implement the project,” Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy said at a seminar on `sustainable policy initiatives on fluorosis’ […]
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AP govt promises funds for removing fluoride from water
Andhra Pradesh government would mobilize Rs 600 crore for providing safe drinking water for the fluoride-affected villages across the state, Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy said on Friday. “We are determined to pool in the required funds for taking up permanent measures to tackle fluorosis problem,” Reddy said while inaugurating a seminar on `Sustainable Policy […]
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Increased threat of fluorosis in Delhi
NEW DELHI: With one-third of Delhi’s groundwater laced with excessive fluorides, the number of people falling prey to fluoride poisoning is increasing. The problem has been detected in large parts of west Delhi including Dwarka sector 8, Poothkalan (near Rohini), Nangloi, Kakrola, Dichau and Rajouri Garden. Even areas such as Kanjhawla, Pragati Vihar and Nizamuddin […]
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Fluoride in water takes its toll in Assam
Guwahati, It is colourless, odourless and is wreaking havoc on hundreds of thousands of people in Assam. Like 46-year-old Gita Deb of Tekelangjun village in Karbi Anglong district for whom life is an endless odyssey of pain. She’s been bedridden for seven years, wracked by perennial body pain after she contracted skeletal fluorosis, a water-borne […]
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Drinking water no succour for this village near Agra
It’s no potion but plain drinking water that disables otherwise perfectly fit residents of Baroli Aheer, a village near Agra in Uttar Pradesh. And the cause of agony for the residents of this villages is an excessive fluoride content in the drinking water. Every second person-children as well as adults-are suffering from deformed limbs, cataract, […]
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Fluorosis burst bares green secrets
KOLKATA, June 5. — The chief minister and others wearing the cap of “green” activists – leaders, officials, NGOs et al – spent World Environment Day going hammer and tongs for a cleaner and disease-free environment. But few, if any, cared to lend an ear to patients of dental fluorosis, caused by high flouride content […]
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Fluoride contamination in water highest in Dharmapuri
Dharmapuri district has a high concentration of endemic fluoride and ranks the highest in the State. According to a recent survey by the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage (TWAD) Board, out of 10,451 handpump sources, 3161 were found highly fluoride contaminated. Sources in the board say “around 30 per cent of the water sources in […]
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