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Campaign faces roadblocks by way of misconceptions, low awareness • Studies show that caries is prevalent even among children exposed to fluoride • Fluoride can affect bones and skeleton unleashing severe pain in major joints • One main reason for contracting the disease is consumption of untreated groundwater • 66 million people in India, including […]

NALHATI, May 17: The fluoride-affected people of Nashipur village under the Nalhati-I block in Birbhum are slowly dying. Although the government has made many assurances, people are not provided with the necessary treatments and safe water. Even the CPI-M led previous board of Baoutia panchayat failed to give hope to the affected people. For 16 […]

Excerpts: The government’s woes on the water front have been compounded by reports of high concentration of fluoride in ground water in 22 blocks of 12 districts. In the wake of this revelation following a survey, the fear of spread of fluorosis, a disease caused by high fluoride level in the water, has gripped these […]

NEW DELHI, Apr 18 (IPS) – Over 37.7 million people in India are affected by water-borne diseases due to contaminated drinking water supply and an estimated 1.5 million children die of diarrhoea each year, according to newly available statistics. Compiled through collaboration between the government and the international non-government organisation (NGO) Water Aid the new […]

This is a story of a land where excess fluoride has turned the ground water into a slow poison, crippling at least 10,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousand of others in constant misery. This is the story of Nalgonda, one of the poorest and most drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The […]

Guwahati (ABC Live): The ground water quality in Assam is deteriorating day by days due to mining activities in state. Guwahati (ABC Live): The ground water quality in Assam is deteriorating day by days due to mining activities in state. In recent nearly 58000 water samples from different water sources were colleted to test the […]

Experts blame drinking water supply system for rising prevalence ALAPPUZHA: Speakers at a continuing medical education (CME) programme on fluorosis here have warned that the disorder has become endemic to the districts of Alappuzha and Palakkad. The programme was organised by the Fluorosis Research Centre (FRC) at T.D. Medical College here. Experts said the prevalence […]

Khem karan, March 6 Sajjan Singh, 55, a resident of nearby Assal Uttar village is waiting for the doctor at the local community health centre here. He can’t speak much, his body aches, his teeth have turned yellow and dis-coloured awfully, causing premature decay. But he is not alone as out of the 20 patients […]

Khemkaran Sector (Punjab), Mar 5 (ANI): Fluorosis arising from excessive fluoride content in water cripples villagers and causes severe deformities in Punjab. Besides being affected by deformed limbs, villagers also suffer from cataract, and premature ageing. “The villagers are facing a host of health problems due to the hard water. Knees are severely deformed, eyesight […]

Khamkaran Sector (Indo Pak Border) March 5, (ANI): There was a time when families living in the border villages of Punjab had to routinely migrate to safe places whenever tension with Pakistan aggravated. Today people living in the villages are facing a new danger –death due to contaminated water. Over 200,000 people in more than […]