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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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Villagers In Unnao Floored By Fluoride
High percentage of fluoride in water has wrought havoc in a cluster of villages in Unnao district, says a report prepared by the Jal Nigam. The report quotes WHO specifications which place the permissible limit at only 1 mg per litre. In these villages, however, the presence is as high as 7 mg at the […]
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Wells that bring nothing but ills
THE PUMP was installed in Shatap’s village of Hirapur, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, during the United Nations’ International Water Decade of the 1980s. Its borehole was one of millions sunk throughout the world in a highly publicised race to provide the world’s poor with “safe” drinking water, planned and part-funded by aid […]
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