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Tribals live with fluorosis as govt turns blind eye
CHUKRU (JHARKHAND), JAN 12: Every family in the tribal Adivasi belt in Daltonganj has at least one person with some physical deformity. Gastro-intestinal problems are routine here and miscarriages common. And almost all of them suffer from decaying teeth. Fluorosis has spread its tentacles in this village, claiming its first victim last year. In the […]
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Fluoride rise in UP water alarming
LUCKNOW : Though 17 states in the country have a sizable number of people with a high fluoride content in their blood, Uttar Pradesh ranks first in this regard. A Unicef report says that 11.77 million people in the state are supposed to be having fluoride content in their blood. Fluoride, which till few years […]
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Nalco smelter fluoride damages Orissa crops
BHUBANESWAR: Fluoride reportedly released from a smelter plant last week has damaged crops in at least 2,000 hectares of cultivable land in Orissa’s Angul district, officials claimed Monday. About 3,000 farmers who lost their crops demonstrated before the district collector’s office Monday, demanding compensation for the damage caused to their crops. The fluoride was reportedly […]
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Defluoridation plants bring hope & relief to Punjab community
A Latin American story is playing out in a Punjab town. It has been so magical and real that the government has decided to take it to 20 villages. The story began on June 21, 2002, when Uruguay gifted a modular water-treatment plant, the first of its kind in India, to Talwandi Sabo. A town […]
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The dark zone
This is a story about patal; the dark zone. This is a real life story about underground water, when the nectar turns into poison. When a daily task of drinking water from the handpump becomes the source of crippling disease and death. This is a story about arsenicosis — arsenic toxicity and fluorosis — excessive […]
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5,000 hit by fluoride poisoning in 15 Karbi Anglong villages
Thousands of villagers have been affected, many of them crippled for life, by drinking water containing excessive levels of fluorides in some parts of Karbi Anglong districts of Assam. The worst affected area was the Takelanguin, where more than 600 people out of the 2,300 surveyed were affected by the hydro-flourosia, according to Chief Engineer […]
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Cripples From An Indian Village Wait For Death
KACHHARIADIH, India, (AFP) – Villagers here would rather die than live. With 90 percent of the population crippled, few feel there is much to look forward to. The village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar has 300 people including 50 children who cannot walk without sticks or parental support. “What’s the use of life […]
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Fluoride ‘curse’ cripples Bihar village
Rajauli (Bihar), May 10: The sun is beating down hard amid the dusty hills but the six little devils cannot wait for the race to begin. Ears cocked for the final whistle, they fidget as they stand in line. And nervously, adjust their walking sticks. The whistle goes. Six pairs of legs, grotesquely twisted out […]
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Water for all may just be a pipe dream
NEW DELHI: If you think that the water crisis in the country cannot get worse, you are in for a shock. According to a WHO and UNICEF-sponsored study on water supply and sanitation in the country, the per capita requirement will outstrip the current utilisable resources by 31% by the middle of the century. According […]
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REPORT: 66 Million People at Risk
NEW DELHI: As many as 200 districts in the country suffer from high fluoride concentration in ground water. Spread over 17 states and affecting a population of some 25 million, another 66 million are described as a “population at risk”. So says a recently-concluded WHO-UNICEF sponsored study on the country’s water supply and sanitation. The […]
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