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Protected drinking water supply evades Lingagudem
JAGGAIAHPET (KRISHNA): Lingagudem, a minor panchayat in Penuganchiprolu mandal under Jaggaiahpet assembly constituency, is a village of sufferers as over 70 per cent of the 1,200 people in the village are affected by arthritis or rickets, thanks to the high percentage of fluoride in the drinking water. People of this sleepy village have been drinking […]
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Contaminated and Crippled for Life
When Kusum Kalita joined the teaching staff at Tekelangjun High School 12 years ago, she encountered a rather peculiar experience in the classroom. Many of her students would cover their mouths with their fingers while talking to her. As Kalita was soon to learn, the students were embarrassed to smile because their teeth looked ‘dirty.’ […]
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Fluorosis, the unnoticed scourge
NEW DELHI: With 66.62 million people afflicted, fluorosis has surprisingly attracted little more than a cursory attention from experts and health planners, says a new publication on the subject. “It is rather striking to note that even after six decades, the disease characteristics reported in the early reports are still valid, though we now have […]
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Fluorosis makes Amreli villagers stoop
Hatathigad (Amreli), May 10: Sandhiben can’t sit up on the bed without an effort. She uses a rope tied to the ceiling to pull herself up and finally manages to get out of the bed with a little help from her grandson. Not many will believe that she is just 45. Fluorosis has added years […]
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Excess fluoride in water wreaks havoc in Jharkhand village
Ranchi: Tragedy has struck many a family in the Bakhari village of Jharkhand’s Daltanganj district, where excess fluoride in water has left several with severe physical deformities and even paralyzed some. Bakhari village, situated about 20 km from the district headquarters, has a population of nearly 700, comprising mostly tribals and members of socially underprivileged […]
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Fluoride contamination of water: an issue of concern in India
OCT 31, 2000, M2 Communications – A 20-member Swedish delegation led by Mr. Kjell Larsson, Minister of Environment, Government of Sweden called on the Union Minister for Water Resources, Shri Arjun Charan Sethi here yesterday. The Minister for Water Resources at the outset welcomed the leader and the delegation for paying a visit to India. […]
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Fluoride harming teeth and joints in Punjab, India
FEROZEPORE – Higher fluoride content in underground water is causing tooth decay at an alarming rate among people of Fazilka and Jalalabad towns of this border district. Due to inadequate supply of canal water, large section of the population uses underground water for drinking and often complains of tooth decay. The administration and the medical […]
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Fluorosis plagues two Assam districts
NEW DELHI: The Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts of Assam are in the grip of hydroflouroside or flourosis, caused by the high content of flouride in drinking water. The fluoride content was found to be as high as 23 mg per litre in some areas of the districts, according to a survey by the Public […]
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High-fluoride water takes toll in Assam District
GUWAHATI: Thousands of villagers have been affected, many of them crippled for life, by drinking water containing excessive levels of fluoride, in some parts of Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, a report said. The worst-affected area was in the Tekelanguin where every fourth person has been affected by the hydro-fluorosia affecting a population of nearly one […]
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High fluoride level in water causes havoc in Assam areas
GEETA DEY is in her early thirties, but she looks like a woman in her mid-50s. Bed-ridden most of the time, she spends her days in pain and misery. A victim of fluoride poisoning, Geeta needs help from others even to perform her routine chores. She is not alone. Hundreds of others in Assam’s hill […]
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