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Fluorosis… causing paraplegia… mutilating life…
Abstract Fluorosis is thought to be rare in Pakistan but endemic in various parts of the world, especially in India and China. In Pakistan only a few cases have been reported from Thar, Sibbi and Manga Mandi, with probability of fluorosis on MRI findings, supported by high drinking waterfluoride content. Neurological manifestations of skeletal fluorosis […]
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Lahore: Water of most CDGL schools contaminated
THOUSANDS of children studying in schools owned by City District Government Lahore (CDGL) may suffer from serious health issues as they are drinking contaminated water in their schools, The News has learnt. Some two months back, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ordered the CDGL to carry out a comprehensive water sampling of its schools through a […]
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Improving Pakistan’s Communal Health
We sometimes take it for granted that nature provides a clean environment that does not affect human health, but this is far from the truth. “All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. Only the dose differentiates a poison and a remedy” said Paracelsus, the founder of Toxicology. Disease is an […]
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Fluoride level at over 13 mg/liter, DUHS-PCSIR study shows
MITHI: The Sindh government will invest Rs5.4 billion in installing 750 solar-powered reverse osmosis water purification plants across the sprawling desert district to facilitate over 1.5 million people. The government said the facility were likely to start working by June this year. Built at a cost of Rs400 million, the plant is expected to particularly […]
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Hazards: Climate change cause of devastation
KARACHI: Climate change is devastating all arid areas of Sindh including Chahcro, Kohistan, Kachho, Nara region, Achro Thar and Tharparkar and is causing reduction in rains, drinking water, grazing fields and livestock. Society for Environmental Action, Re-Construction and Humanitarian response (SEARCH) executive director Waheed Jamali said that fluoride contamination of the underground water sources in […]
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Water woes: When heads cannot be held up high
ISLAMKOT: As he tries to get up from his bed, no more than a threadbare ralli on the floor, Ramesh reaches out for his cane. Once up, he cannot stand straight. Though his full height is some 5 feet 8 inches, he is bent over so much that he seems only half as tall as he […]
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Pakistan’s Coal Quandary: Energy, the Environment and Hindu-Muslim Harmony
In this guest-post, Muhammad Makki, a doctoral candidate at the University of Queensland, presents his reflections on a field visit to the remote Tharparkar coal region of Pakistan and the challenges of communal harmony and a diversified approach to addressing Pakistan’s energy crisis. The field visit was supported by the International Mining for Development Centre […]
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Election manifestos: Political parties gloss over potable water issue
KARACHI: Almost all political parties have presented their manifestos claiming to resolve people’s problems, but a fundamental issue has been neglected – potable water. Either the promise is too big to be fulfilled or terrorism, extremism, and law and order have pushed potable water far below on the priority list. A study of the election […]
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Simultaneously evaluate the toxic levels of fluoride and arsenic species in underground water of Tharparkar and possible contaminant sources: a multivariate study.
Abstract The present study investigated total arsenic (tAs), inorganic arsenic (iAs) species and fluoride ion (F(-)) contamination in underground water of Mithi and Nangarparkar subdistricts of Tharparkar, Pakistan. Statistical parameters, principal component analysis, cluster analysis, sodium absorption ratio and saturation indices (SI) were used to detect interrelation and sources of concentration of tAs, iAs species […]
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Simultaneously evaluate the toxic levels of fluoride and arsenic species in underground water of Tharparkar and possible contaminant sources: A multivariate study.
Abstract The present study investigated total arsenic (tAs), inorganic arsenic (iAs) species and fluoride ion (F) contamination in underground water of Mithi and Nangarparkar subdistricts of Tharparkar, Pakistan. Statistical parameters, principal component analysis, cluster analysis, sodium absorption ratio and saturation indices (SI) were used to detect interrelation and sources of concentration of tAs, iAs species […]
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