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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Odisha government to file an action taken report (ATR) over the acute shortage of safe drinking water in many villages of Kalahandi, Nuapada and Bolangir districts, depriving people of the right to lead a life with dignity. Taking cognizance of a complaint filed by rights activist Dillip Kumar Das of […]

A fluoride-affected woman of Marriguda mandal in Nalgonda district.- PHOTO: SINGAM VENKATARAMANA The fluoride victims and social activists fighting the fluoride issue in the district have appealed to Chief Minister-designate K.Chandrasekhar Rao to put his first signature on a file declaring the constitution of a special board to resolve all the fluoride-related issues in not […]

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an action taken report (ATR) from the Odisha government over the alleged deaths of at least 28 persons due to kidney related diseases in three villages of Bolangir district over a period of four years due to consumption of water drawn from tube wells with excessive fluoride […]

The western zone bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune has passed an order prohibiting unauthorized extraction of groundwater for commercial use after it was found that the presence of large quantities of fluoride in it is affecting villagers in 12 districts. These include Yavatmal, Nanded, Chandrapur, Beed, Latur, Washim, Parbhani, Hingoli, Jalna, […]

They hope at least the next party to form government would do something to mitigate their plight They are neither physically challenged nor elderly persons, but the trek to polling stations is painful for them because of the water they have been drinking for decades. “Successive governments had failed to provide safe drinking water to […]

Safe potable water is a luxury in Nuapada district where content of fluoride in water is very high. Despite several schemes with outlay running into crores of rupees have been lined up to mitigate water scarcity in the State, residents of Boden and Komna blocks of the district have to walk miles together in search […]

Nalgonda district has gained such notoriety due to the fluoride issue in the nation that no political party or politician concludes their electioneering without talking about the ill-effects of fluoride on people, but without promising to provide safe drinking water. Despite several efforts, still thousands of school students in the district are consuming water with […]

Jaipur: The Rajasthan government will provide RO (reverse osmosis)purified drinking water to rural households this summer at 10 paisa per liter, an official said Friday. The state government will set up 1,000 RO plants under a scheme to provide clean drinking water to the rural areas. The villages where water has higher level of fluoride […]

Fluoride problem and lack of employment opportunities still dog the Hindupur Lok Sabha constituency. Several villages in Nallamada and Obula Devara Cheruvu (ODC) mandals of Kadiri Assembly constituency are affected by fluoride problem and people are forced to shift to other places for safe drinking water. Another problem is of lack of industries. With no […]

AURANGABAD: The western bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Directorate Groundwater Surveys & Development Agency (DGSDA) to submit a report, pertaining to the fluorosis-affected areas based on a survey to be carried out by the authority, before April 15. Taking cognisance of contamination of potable water in 12 districts of Maharashtra, […]