Water is essential for sustaining life and our ecosystem as a whole and India is by far the largest and fastest growing consumer of ground water in the world. In our country, ground water is a common pool resource (CPR), used by millions of farmers, and about 84 percent of the total addition to the […]
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Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
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NGT: Cut water supply with fluoride content
Nagpur: Taking serious note about prevalence of fluorosis in most parts of Vidarbha, Marathwada and Western Maharashtra, the Pune-bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the collectors from 12 districts to ensure that groundwater sources having higher fluoride contents should be discontinued, either by identifying alternate sources or by provision of regional water supply […]
Health experts visit Balasore villages affected by flurorsis
Balasore: Health experts from New Delhi visited fluorosis-affected villages in Remuna and Bhogarai blocks of Balasore district on Friday and Saturday. The disease has affected children and the elderly of at least five villages. The team, comprising Rajnarayan Indu and Sunderrajan Krishnan from Fluoride Knowledge and Action Network, Sundar M Senthilnathan from Arghyam and Utkarsha […]
National Green Tribunal seeks stricter norms for waste discharge by industries
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench here has directed the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to jointly identify industries in the state that discharge effluents with higher fluoride content into treated waste water. The court also asked the two government bodies to adopt stricter standards to curb […]
As Ground Goes Dry, Governmentt Permits More Borewells
BENGALURU: The state authorities have allowed more than 9,000 borewells in taluks notified for over-exploiting underground water. The revelation has prompted experts to describe the watershed development and waterbody rejuvenation programmes as a failure. It shows how casual the government is about tackling problems with serious implications, they say. Water resources have been in a […]
Stir against pollution in Sonbhadra district’s Singarauli area
Varanasi: Perturbed by the increasing levels of hazardous pollutants including heavy metals in water, air and soil, the natives of different villages in the Singrauli area of Sonbhadra district formed a forum -Singrauli Pradooshan Mukti Vahini supported by Banwasi Seva Ashram to raise their voice and draw the attention of authorities for strict implementation of […]
Fate of fluorosis-hit people hangs in balance
Thanks to official apathy, funds meant for rehabilitation and distribution of medicines have been stalled, putting the lives of as many as 33,391 fluorosis patients in peril Hyderabad: A lot of hue and cry has been made over of fluorosis-affected districts in the State and volumes have been written about the ill-fated patients of the […]
11k acres land leased for solar power park has contaminated water: Repor
BENGALURU: Having burnt its fingers in land acquisition for mega power projects time and again, the government has decided to change its land policy for one of the biggest power generation endeavours in Karnataka. The Karnataka Solar Power Development Corporation Limited, a joint venture between Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd and central agency Solar Energy […]
New Year gift for Barmer villages-MoU signed for drinking water
Hundreds of villages in the desert district of Barmer received clean and safe drinking water as a New Year gift. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today between the Public Health and Engineering Department of Rajasthan and Cairn Enterprise Centre Society. As per the MoU, water plants will be established and maintained to provide clean […]
Government allots Rs 1,000 crore for toxic water zones
NITI Aayog will provide Rs 1,000 crore to save a large population in various states where people are forced to consume groundwater that contains excess of health-crippling arsenic and fluoride. The plan is to install community water purification plants (CWPPs). Each of which would provide 1,000 litres of drinking water an hour for which users […]