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Boddavaram: Safe water comes at a risk!
Fetching drinking water from oozing pits (chelamas) is a common practice in Boddavaram village of Kotananduru mandal in East Godavari district even today. At every election the village folk are promised safe drinking water. But once the polls are over, the promise is forgotten. Carrying a potful of water on her head, Doddi Varalakshmi of […]
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Uttar Pradesh: Big on voter count, small on results
Unnao, Uttar Pradesh: This busy, bustling town in central Uttar Pradesh will vote in the third phase of the 2009 Lok Sabha election on Thursday, but not just as any other constituency. Unnao, after the delimitation exercise completed in 2007, has become the parliamentary constituency with the largest electorate. Delimitation involves redrawing the boundaries of […]
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Jhunjunu-Sikar water woes ignored by candidates
SIKAR/JHUNJHUNU: The picturesque Roop Nivas Palace, now a heritage hotel, in Nawalgarh, Shekhawati in Jhunjhunu district, presents a stark contrast to the parched hamlets nearby. Early in the morning one may see a peacock dancing and in the stable, housing over a hundred Marwari stallions, caretaker Jaswant Singh lovingly massaging the two-year-old white stallion, Nukra, […]
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Andhra Pradesh: Fluorosis victims struggle for rights
Tirupathamma says she is not contesting to win, only to raise her voice against government apathy She looks frail and older than her age, but her determination cannot be doubted. P. Tirupathamma, who is gearing for the elections, makes it clear that she is not contesting to win but to raise her voice against the […]
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Bangalore: Contamination is a growing concern
Bangalore: Groundwater in the city is high on flouride [sic] content. If that was not bad enough news on World Water Day, samples from the Madiwala lake showed traces of pathogens. Citizens observed the day across the city on Sunday, but with a growing sense of the impending crisis. While there were over 85 events […]
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Fresh water in Asia a challenge
Excerpt: Health experts say as many as 70 million people in India and Bangladesh are exposed to excessive concentrations of arsenic and FLUORIDE. Some experts describe it baldly as the biggest mass poisoning in history. For more, see original article Print PDF
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Muktsar: Here, drinking water is elixir of death
Muktsar residents committing slow suicide by drinking 7-foot-deep water Everyday, Kotkapura Road residents, Vivek Sharma and his wife Neetu, get a 10-litre can filled from the Water Works office campus, after it closes. They don’t get enough potable water from the regular supply of the Water Works department, and can’t risk their lives by drinking […]
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Nalgonda faces acute water scarcity
NALGONDA: If there is any region in the State that has been suffering from the same set of problems over the decades with no government worth its salt ever attempting to solve the woes, then Nalgonda perhaps fits the bill. Water scarcity and fluorosis have become perennial to this region. Except the media, which may […]
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Kolar: State fails to provide maintenance for de-fluoridation programs
Title: Bringing the state back in Excerpt: … Just in the past two weeks of travel, from the dusty villages of Bagepalli in Kolar district, to the grimy streets of municipal Kolkata, I have seen, all over again, just how callous and neglectful the state has become in the provisioning of public services, and how […]
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Gulbarga taluk: Water with fluoride content
GULBARGA: Flourisis-affected Khiru Naik tanda in Gulbarga taluk is an example of the negligent attitude of the state government, particularly the Health Department. In 2000, the thanda hit the headlines. Of the 60 people in the tanda, 27 suffer from skeletal deformity after drinking water with high fluoride content and the matter was raised in […]
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