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‘Over a million affected by fluorosis in India’
NAGPUR: A research has revealed that India was one of the worst fluorosis affected countries, with over 10 lakh (one million) people suffering. This is because a large number of Indians rely on groundwater for drinking purposes and water at many places is rich in fluoride. The research was conducted by a city-based team that […]
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Globalization: Of The Dominant, By The Dominant, And For The Dominant
Globalization or ‘Globalism’ is beneficial for the dominant and destructive for the submissive. It always streams from developed countries towards underdeveloped and developing countries in three ways: a) in the form of products and services b) as cultural dependency and domination c) and as deceptive thoughts to mould the thinking of the world population. Globalization […]
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Fluoride poisoning: Andhra government apathetic towards plight of victims
Crooked bones, twisted limbs and deformed bodies sat in the doorways, eyes vacant, staring into the horizon. Movement for them is a curse, each day a torture, as they struggle to find answers to government apathy that has left them dwarfed and shrivelled, thanks to fluoride poisoning of ground water. Most people living in Nalgonda […]
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NEERI develops process to reduce high water fluoride content
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has developed an indigenous and economically viable process with domestic and community applications to reduce high fluoride content in potable water. According to an NEERI release, a chemo-defluoridation domestic unit consists of a steel container fitted with a sand filter at its bottom. To reduce the fluoride content, […]
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Gujarat to get Fluoride Mitigation Centre
The Union government said on Friday that a Fluoride Mitigation Centre would be set up in Gujarat, even as the Gujarat state government sought financial assistance from Centre to meet increased demand for drinking water in tribal areas under the group water supply scheme. The announcement regarding the Centre was made by Union rural development […]
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Madhya Pradesh people drinking water with excessive fluoride
A large population, especially children, in 27 of the 50 Madhya Pradesh districts are threatened by the fluorosis menace as people in these districts are being forced to drink water with excessive fluoride, much beyond the permissible limit. According to the latest information available from the state public health engineering department, the fluoride content in […]
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Yavatmal: Activist, government differ on fluoride contamination
NAGPUR: While Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) continues to claim that people in as many as 454 villages in Yavatmal district are being forced to consume fluoride affected water for years the officials of the state water supply and sanitation department maintain that corrective measures have been taken in all but 49 villages. The VJAS […]
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Stalked by death in Nalgonda
The barren villages of Nalgonda tell stories of deformity, death and poverty. They stand as personifications of an apathetic government that has, over the ages, forsaken the lives of over 75,000 people affected by fluorosis — a condition born out of excessive fluoride content in water. The people of Nalgonda are living a nightmare, their […]
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Rajasthan: IICT aims at setting up defluoridation units
HYDERABAD: After designing and commissioning several low-cost groundwater defluoridation plants in flurosis -affected villages of Andhra Pradesh, the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology is now looking forward to set up model defluoridation units in Rajasthan. Defluoridation refers to methods of water treatment that reduce the concentration of fluoride in the water, normally, in order to […]
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Bantwal: Victims of fluorine cylinder blast at water treatment plant recovering
Over 30 victims of fluorine leakage from the cylinder explosion at the town water treatment plant on Monday March 5 are recovering, and 15 of these are still under treatment in hospitals. A total of 36 people were admitted in the hospital of whom 21 recovered and were discharged from hospital. Water treatment plant personnel […]
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