DOBOKA (NAGAON): At the age of 30, Sadhoni Kalita looks like a 50-year-old woman – her legs are deformed to the extent that she has great difficulty walking, lines of stress and helplessness are etched deep into her face. Mention marriage and the creases of sadness in her face deepen further. Sadhoni has given up […]
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Fluorosis-hit Garhwa village yet to get safe drinking water
Garhwa: The Rs 2-crore drinking water supply scheme is yet to bring relief to residents of the fluorosis-hit Pratappur village, 15km from the district headquarter, here more than one year after it started. The project, which started in 2007, was completed last year but supply of safe drinking water did not start. The village is […]
The water crusaders invent new device to test fluoride in water
The website for TernUp Research Labs, a recent startup involved in water and sanitation issues, describes its founders as ‘a nebulous collective of people with different backgrounds, working together on what feels right’. And for the bunch of eclectic foursome, it is water that has to be right. With millions risking fluorosis and arsenic poisoning […]
Bangalore: A cocktail of toxins
Chemical analysis of water samples collected as a part of ground water monitoring, carried out by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), has thrown up worrying results. Besides nitrate, fluoride, salinity being above normal levels, fluoride and radon gas have emerged as the new ingredients in the city’s ground water above permissible levels. “We have […]
Over 70 million people in 600 districts in 20 states are at risk due to excess fluoride
… The government, for its part, has yet to come up with uniform quality standards for water purifiers in the country. Meantime, as recent studies by the United Nations reveal, over 1 lakh people die in India annually due to waterborne diseases. Over 70 million people in 600 districts in 20 states are at risk […]
National Institute of Nutrition trains technicians to detect fluorosis
HYDERABAD: With fluorosis having been identified as a major health issue in 100 districts across 17 states in the country, the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) here has begun a programme to control the disease. A visit to Venkapalli village in Nalgonda district was organised for technicians from 11 states who had come for training […]
Union Cabinet approves to proposal for Establishment of International Centre for Drinking Water Quality at Kolkata
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to the proposal for establishing the International Centre for Drinking Water Quality in Kolkata. The Centre will be registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, with the requisite manpower, building and support infrastructure. The basic aim of the Centre is to work in the area […]
Calcutta to get an international centre for drinking water quality
The Union cabinet today cleared an “international centre for drinking water quality” in Calcutta that will conduct research and training and advise the Centre, states and South Asian neighbours on water-related issues. Senior bureaucrats said this would be the first international-level centre to be set up in Bengal in recent times. “I cannot even recall […]
Interview with Dr Susheela: Why the Govt’s Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation Programme won’t produce desired results
On July 17, the Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation Programme was launched with great fanfare – full-page newspaper ads and the works that any government scheme has. However, soon afterwards children taking the supplements started falling ill. While there might be no conspiracy here and it could simply be a case of a few stray […]
Rural people should get the same drinking water as the PM and President: H K Patil
A shower and Western loos in rural areas, where public toilets are hard to come by? Rural development and panchayat raj minister H K Patil is determined to make it a reality in Karnataka. “The derision my plan evokes has provoked me to execute it seriously. When former PM Indira Gandhi mooted the concept of […]