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Aging in the time of Drought
THE silence is the first thing to hit you in the village of Jharana Khurd, 60 km from Jaipur. Then you realise why: There are no young people in the village. Every one of the 1,200 residents, no matter if they are 50, 30 or 10, looks old, with yellow, cracked teeth and pronounced limps. […]
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Fluoride poisoned people in India need our help
Dear All, Michael Connett received a heart rending appeal today from a group in India which is working on behalf of the people of Nalgonda District in India who are being poisoned with water naturally high in fluoride. They are being poisoned both by the fluoride and by political neglect. As they say in their […]
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Oswal Phosphate Plant facing Closure due to Fluoride Contamination
The di-ammonia plant (DAP) of Oswal Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd at Paradip will be closed for causing environmental pollution. A joint inspection team (JIT) of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest, Central Pollution Control Board and the Orissa State Pollution Control Board have ordered the closure. The JIT has opined that unless the company […]
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Fluorosis playing havoc in Kolar
KOLAR: Barely 70 km from the hi-tech city of Bangalore lies Kolar where more than 80 per cent of the children in the age-group of 6-14 suffer from skeletal and severe dental fluorosis. Reason: The water they consume has excess fluoride which has weakened their hands and legs. Worse, in Kolar, all villages depend on […]
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Five die of fluorosis in Orissa
Bhubaneswar, Apr 6 (IANS) – At least five people, including four women, have died of fluorosis, a water-borne disease, and nearly 50 have been afflicted in Orissa villages. The deaths were reported from Balasingha, Balasinghapatna and Singhpur villages in Khurda district, about 60 km from here, over the past week, a local legislator, Prasanta Nanda, […]
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A new danger confronts Assamese
While the attention of the public is focused on arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh, West Bengal and other places, fluorosis is quietly exacting its toll elsewhere in South Asia. For more than a decade, Assam has been in the limelight for its multiple insurgencies. Because of this almost exclusive focus on violence, a new danger confronting […]
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Fluorosis in Yavatmal
In mid-2000, as incidents of severe fluorosis in a village in Yavatmal district came to light, the Maharashtra government declared a special Rs 200 crore package for safe drinking water in tribal-dominated areas. The incidents had sparked off a major uproar and in an unprecedented move, the National Human Rights Commission too had passed strictures […]
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Fluorosis affects eight districts in Rajasthan
JAIPUR: Fluorosis has engulfed eight major districts of Rajasthan causing serious human, dental and skeletal abnormalities, according to a UNICEF report. Atleast 16,560 out of 33,211 villages in the country, about 51 per cent, have reported excessive concentration of fluoride in the range of 1.5-3.0 ppm (parts per million) affecting people of all age group […]
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Nalgonda leaders plead for drinking water project
HYDERABAD: In response to a report carried in The Times of India, leaders of various political parties from Nalgonda district on Tuesday appealed to Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu to consider immediate sanction of the Madharam reservoir drinking water project, to solve the fluoride problem in 36 villages. In a representation submitted to Naidu under the […]
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Rajasthan May Turn Into People With Bent Backs
The problem of fluorosis in Rajasthan has aggrevated. All the districts in Rajasthan have villages affected with fluoride contamination in ground water. According to study conducted by voluntary organisation Health, Environment & Development Consortium, more than 8 million people are consuming water with high concentration of fluoride. People are becoming incapable of doing work also […]
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