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Rajasthan: Excess fluoride adds to water woes in Dausa
High quantities of fluoride in water lead to fluorosis, kidney stone and constipation among other ailments. HIGHLIGHTS High quantities of fluoride in water leads a host of ailments such as fluorosis, stones and constipation Government has installed RO plants where villagers can buy 20 lt of water for Rs 4 Villagers have demanded a permanent […]
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Will one single water ministry solve India’s water woes?
Keeping in line with its promise before the 2019 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government has merged departments to create one single ministry to address water-related issues. The new ministry would focus on issues like cleaning of rivers including Ganga, ensuring piped water supply to all households, access to safe drinking water and river […]
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PHE dept to install portable water filters in Supebeda
State government is working on a project to install portable water-filters in the taps and wells at Supebeda village to ensure that the villagers get quality drinking water. “We are working on a project under which portable water-filters will be installed in the water-supply taps in Supebeda and nearby villages. These manual filters will not […]
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JNARDDC comes up with a process to get silica, aluminium fluoride from coal fly ash
Silica is useful for structural materials, microelectronics and pharmaceutical industry Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre (JNARDDC), Nagpur has developed a process to convert coal fly ash into useful products such as high purity silica and aluminium fluoride at laboratory scale. Pure silica has many uses such as it is utilised in structural […]
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Swipe To Drink (water ATMs)
Parag Agarwal, Founder and MD, JanaJal (Photograph by Shekhar Ghosh) Life is tough for residents of the 1,800 unauthorised colonies scattered across Delhi as they do not have access to piped water supply. In these areas, there is no sewerage also due to lack of legal property ownership and transfer rights. But of late, people […]
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Hackathon at IIT Kharagpur showcases simple methods of water purification
NEW DELHI, MAY 15: A team of postgraduate students and research scholars from the School of Water Resources, Jadavpur University (Debdas Chowdhury, Saurabh Kumar Basak and Priyabrata Mandal) emerged winners of the Rural Drinking Water Technology Hackathon. It was organized by the Rural Development Centre (funded by the Design Innovation Centre) of IIT Kharagpur. They […]
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New tech solutions to drive India’s Smart City Mission
Excerpt: Water ATMs: There are 66,093 rural habitations in India where the drinking-water source is contaminated with chemicals, such as arsenic and fluoride. Water ATMs provide safe drinking water sources in urban and rural areas. *The full article is online at https://www.opengovasia.com/new-tech-solutions-to-drive-indias-smart-city-mission/ Print PDF
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Fluoride-affected village thirsts for clean water in Odisha
JHARSUGUDA: High amount of fluoride content in groundwater continues to be a threat to Mahulmunda village for the last four years. With no solution in sight, 30 families of the village under Patrapalli panchayat in the district are depending on a pit for getting drinking water. The village had two borewells to meet the water requirement. […]
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Cinnamon and liquorice – A wonderful herbal combo to fight tooth decay
“Liquorice has shown efficacy in the treatment of various oral ailments including dental caries, gingivitis and bleeding gums. In clinical trials, its use has resulted in significant decrease in bacteria causing dental caries and gingivitis. Clinical studies with an objective to find herbal treatment of periodontitis have shown that the phytochemicals of liquorice prevent the […]
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Now, fluoride victims to fight Narendra Modi in Varanasi
NALGONDA/NIZAMABAD: Emulating the turmeric farmers of Nizamabad, fluoride victims from Nalgonda district have decided to file mass nominations in Varanasi, in a bid to draw national attention to their decades-old problem. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking re-election from Varanasi, the fluoride victims of this backward district hope the Centre takes note of their […]
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