OCT 31, 2000, M2 Communications – A 20-member Swedish delegation led by Mr. Kjell Larsson, Minister of Environment, Government of Sweden called on the Union Minister for Water Resources, Shri Arjun Charan Sethi here yesterday. The Minister for Water Resources at the outset welcomed the leader and the delegation for paying a visit to India. […]
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Fluoride harming teeth and joints in Punjab, India
FEROZEPORE – Higher fluoride content in underground water is causing tooth decay at an alarming rate among people of Fazilka and Jalalabad towns of this border district. Due to inadequate supply of canal water, large section of the population uses underground water for drinking and often complains of tooth decay. The administration and the medical […]
Fluorosis plagues two Assam districts
NEW DELHI: The Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts of Assam are in the grip of hydroflouroside or flourosis, caused by the high content of flouride in drinking water. The fluoride content was found to be as high as 23 mg per litre in some areas of the districts, according to a survey by the Public […]
High-fluoride water takes toll in Assam District
GUWAHATI: Thousands of villagers have been affected, many of them crippled for life, by drinking water containing excessive levels of fluoride, in some parts of Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, a report said. The worst-affected area was in the Tekelanguin where every fourth person has been affected by the hydro-fluorosia affecting a population of nearly one […]
High fluoride level in water causes havoc in Assam areas
GEETA DEY is in her early thirties, but she looks like a woman in her mid-50s. Bed-ridden most of the time, she spends her days in pain and misery. A victim of fluoride poisoning, Geeta needs help from others even to perform her routine chores. She is not alone. Hundreds of others in Assam’s hill […]
Villagers In Unnao Floored By Fluoride
High percentage of fluoride in water has wrought havoc in a cluster of villages in Unnao district, says a report prepared by the Jal Nigam. The report quotes WHO specifications which place the permissible limit at only 1 mg per litre. In these villages, however, the presence is as high as 7 mg at the […]
Wells that bring nothing but ills
THE PUMP was installed in Shatap’s village of Hirapur, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, during the United Nations’ International Water Decade of the 1980s. Its borehole was one of millions sunk throughout the world in a highly publicised race to provide the world’s poor with “safe” drinking water, planned and part-funded by aid […]