93 villages in B’luru Urban hit by fluorosis
Bengaluru Urban district administration recently identified 93 villages, where residents are suffering from fluorosis, once again bringing to the fore the issue of unsafe drinking water. Fluorosis is
Fluorosis
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In Short
bully power: A World Trade Organisation panel will examine the US claim that a tax imposed by Mexico on American soft drinks that use corn sweeteners violates international trade rules. Mexico's 20
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Reason to smile
Tamarind enhances urinary excretion of fluoride
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Village of woe
The water woes of Patti Pachgai village in Uttar Pradesh are being compounded by the incompetent responses of the state government and local NGOs. Even rainwater harvesting, touted as the panacea to many ills, has failed to provide succour...
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Arsenic
Human negotiation with its own capacities and actions often tends to be triumphalist. A man admires his muscled torso; an elite believes itself to be the omphalos
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Wah India
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But what has the state done?
The 1970s and 1980s were a time of massive state investment in rural water development. Not only had more land to be brought under irrigation, but also drinking water supplied. These decades saw an
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Wahtech
The official attitude towards fluoride-laced groundwater is best seen in the manner the state has gone about solutions. In a 1999 nationwide study New Delhi-based Fluorosis Research and Rural
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The dark zone
When <i>Down To Earth</i> correspondents <font class='UCASE'>nidhi jamwal</font> and <font class='UCASE'>d b manisha</font> started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater, we were shocked by the extent of the problem
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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 i
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State sponsors disability
Several UP villages fall prey to crippling disease<br> <font color=navy size=1>(Read full article)</font>