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Prediction modeling and mapping of groundwater fluoride contamination throughout India.
Abstract: For about the past eight decades, high concentrations of naturally occurring fluoride have been detected in groundwater in different parts of India. The chronic consumption of fluoride in high concentrations is recognized to cause dental and skeletal fluorosis. We have used the random forest machine-learning algorithm to model a dataset of 12,600 groundwater fluoride […]
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Part 3: Fluoride hotspots of Tamil Nadu: Why quick action on the ground is needed
The TN government thinks it has solved the problem with water supply schemes, but that is far from the ground reality. The well-begun story of TN’s fight against fluoride contamination can have a resounding finale as in the case of several other social sector programmes. Two major reports about India’s water scenario provide us with […]
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Part 2: TN’s fluoride hotspots: How failed water supply schemes are jeopardising community health
India’s water crisis is rooted in poverty and inequality, not in physical availability, and this is more apparent in the fluoride hotspots of Tamil Nadu. Forty-eight-year-old P Selvaraj, a farmer at Seerikaddu in Kuppanur Panchayat (Ayothipattinam block of Salem District) has a severe case of dental fluorosis, with his entire set of teeth stained brown. […]
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Part 1: Stained teeth and broken dreams: Inside Tamil Nadu’s forgotten fluoride hotspots
A nine-year-old boy in Sengattur Panchayat Primary School, Salem district, with mild stains on his teeth. – Nine-year-old Uday and 10-year-old Keerthika are students of the fifth grade at the panchayat primary school in Sengattur village of Ayothipattinam block in Salem district. Cheerful and full of joy, these children unmindfully reveal the strikingly yellow stain […]
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Analysis showed presence of contaminated ground water around Sterlite plant in TN : Govt
NEW DELHI: Noting groundwater contamination in an around the Sterlite Copper plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, the government on Monday told the Rajya Sabha that the analysis of samples from the unit showed the presence of heavy metals in water beyond permissible limit. “The analysis of groundwater samples, from the Sterlite industrial unit, by […]
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10,917 rural habitations in Assam get contaminated supply water
GUWAHATI, July 21: To remain safe, check the quality of water that is part of your daily food and drink intake. Assam has as many as 10,917 habitations that have all along been making do with water affected by arsenic, fluoride and iron contamination. And this happens in the State even though there is no […]
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Water near Hindon unfit for drinking: Report
GHAZIABAD: Groundwater samples in 93 of 168 areas around the Hindon river have been found to be unsafe for drinking, a report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has stated. The survey by CPCB was carried out in seven districts through which the Hindon river or its distributaries pass. The areas where groundwater was […]
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Water SOS to corporates
Patna: Bihar State Pollution Control Board chairman A.K. Ghosh on Tuesday said a corporate-government approach will be more effective in dealing with waterborne diseases here, stressing that it was their social responsibility. Ghosh said companies which manufacture water-purification devices should work for mass water-purification solutions as part of corporate social responsibility, going beyond the limited […]
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Assam adopts water management practices to keep pace with climate change
In a small village on the north bank of the Brahmaputra in Assam, farmer Horen Nath stood gazing at his partially submerged paddy field. The floods had kept their annual date, but mercifully, the farmer said, the waters have started receding. “The weather has become very strange of late. We always had ample rain, but […]
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After 80 years, in India’s fluorosis capital Nalgonda the disease is finally on the wane
Nalgonda (Telangana): For as long as he can remember, Yadaiah, 56, has had deformed knees. A resident of M. Edavalli village in Nalgonda district, around 100km from Hyderabad, Yadaiah and his family never went to a doctor. It was only around the time he got married, at 20, when his parents finally consulted one. They […]
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