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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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Indian villagers crippled by fluoride
This is a story of a land where excess fluoride has turned the ground water into a slow poison, crippling at least 10,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousand of others in constant misery. This is the story of Nalgonda, one of the poorest and most drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The […]
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India’s groundwater is flooded with fluoride
Fluoride is an acute toxin, with a rating slightly higher than lead. It is, in fact, one of the most bone-seeking elements known to human beings. And groundwater in India shows the presence of unhealthy quantities of fluoride. A worrying scenario: daily ingestion of just 2 milligram (mg) of fluoride could result in crippling skeletal […]
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Andhra town under tension as fast for fluoride-free water continues
Tension has gripped an Andhra Pradesh town where a hunger strike by two Congress party politicians demanding potable water for about 600 villages entered the fifth day Tuesday. Doctors said the condition of legislator K. Venkat Reddy and municipal chairman P. Venkatanarayana Goud was deteriorating in the town of Nalgonda, around 100 km from here. The […]
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Tension as MLA’s health deteriorates
Nalgonda – The indefinite fast undertaken by local MLA Komatireddi Venkat Reddy and Municipal chairman Pullemla Venkatanarayana Goud for achievement of fluoride-free water to the district, entered fourth day on Monday. The government doctors, who were examining the fasting leaders every hour, said their condition was deteriorating. With the condition of the fasting leaders deteriorating, […]
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