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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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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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