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Fluoride in water takes its toll in Assam
Guwahati, It is colourless, odourless and is wreaking havoc on hundreds of thousands of people in Assam. Like 46-year-old Gita Deb of Tekelangjun village in Karbi Anglong district for whom life is an endless odyssey of pain. She’s been bedridden for seven years, wracked by perennial body pain after she contracted skeletal fluorosis, a water-borne […]
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Drinking water no succour for this village near Agra
It’s no potion but plain drinking water that disables otherwise perfectly fit residents of Baroli Aheer, a village near Agra in Uttar Pradesh. And the cause of agony for the residents of this villages is an excessive fluoride content in the drinking water. Every second person-children as well as adults-are suffering from deformed limbs, cataract, […]
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Fluorosis burst bares green secrets
KOLKATA, June 5. — The chief minister and others wearing the cap of “green” activists – leaders, officials, NGOs et al – spent World Environment Day going hammer and tongs for a cleaner and disease-free environment. But few, if any, cared to lend an ear to patients of dental fluorosis, caused by high flouride content […]
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Fluoride contamination in water highest in Dharmapuri
Dharmapuri district has a high concentration of endemic fluoride and ranks the highest in the State. According to a recent survey by the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage (TWAD) Board, out of 10,451 handpump sources, 3161 were found highly fluoride contaminated. Sources in the board say “around 30 per cent of the water sources in […]
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Water water everywhere, or… …poison?
NEW DELHI: On paper, almost all the 14.22 lakh habitations in rural India have access to drinking water. And in more than 94% of these habitations, each person gets 40 litres of water per day, either at home or from a common source within 1.6 km from their dwelling place. In another 6% of habitations, […]
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Rajasthan overcomes excess fluoride in drinking water
An innovative technology adopted by the Rajasthan Government’s Science and Technology Department to tide over the problem of excess fluoride in drinking water has started yielding positive results after about a decade. The water drawn in several fluoride-affected areas, where the technology was implemented, has been found fit for drinking. The department had initiated the […]
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Threat of Fluorosis in drought-hit Gujarat
GANDHINAGAR: As the dawn breaks, Nirmalaben walks a long distance, carrying water. But it is not the arduous trek for water that has cast a shadow on her face. She is worried about the water she is carrying home for her family members – it’s laced with fluoride, and many in Mehsana district are already […]
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Need for Awareness on Fluorosis Stressed
The need for improving levels of awareness among people about the harmful effects of excessive fluorides in the body was underscored by speakers at a continuing medical education programme on fluorosis conducted by the Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation, Andhra Pradesh Red Cross Society, here on Sunday. The Executive Director of the Foundation, A.K. […]
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Fluorosis on the rise in Rajasthan
Jaipur, An alarming one fourth of the rural population in Rajasthan, India’s largest state, suffers from fluorosis, a debilitating disease that damages bones and teeth, research by a voluntary body shows. “The incidence of fluorosis, caused by an excess of fluoride compounds in drinking water, has been rising at an alarming rate in the state,” […]
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Three states to get fluoride mitigation centres
Ahmedabad, India (IANS): Fluoride mitigation centres are to be set up in three states to increase the availability of potable water in villages, Rural Development Minister Kashiram Rana announced here Saturday. Rana, who inaugurated a handicrafts exhibition here, said that 110,000 villages in India suffer from scarcity of potable water due to the fall in […]
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