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No End In Sight For Dharavi's Water Issues
Erratic supply, illegal connections, pressure of tanker mafia, and contamination make life worse in peak summers.
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Tamil Nadu Asks Andhra Pradesh To Release Water For Chennai
With water scarcity in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam on Saturday requested his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu to release water from the Krishna river.
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Fluorosis: A Vicious Disease, But There Is Hope
With dreams in her eyes, Kali Bai married Tol Singh from Jhabua in Madya Pradesh and happily entered village Miyati ten years ago. That happiness did not last long as she soon fell ill. The presence of fluoride in the village’s water made her weak every passing day. Her bones became a tangled mass and looked as if they would collapse any moment. ...
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Bangladesh Failing To Spare Millions From Arsenic Poisoning
For more than two decades, Nasima Begum and her family have been drawing water from a tube well painted red to warn Bangladeshi villagers that it's tainted by arsenic, knowing they're slowly poisoning themselves.
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Millions Drinking Arsenic-Laced Water In Bangladesh: Human Rights Watch
Twenty million poor Bangladeshis are still drinking water contaminated with arsenic, two decades after the potentially deadly toxin was discovered in the supply, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Over 3.6 Crore Rural People At Risk Due To Unsafe Drinking Water: Government
Over 3.6 crore people living in more than 63,000 rural areas are exposed to health hazards due to drinking water quality problems like excess arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity or nitrate.
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The 'Water Mafias' That Suck Karachi Dry
The moment they saw the city water tanker stop in their neighbourhood, Mohammed and Nayla rushed towards it. That day, the water was free a rare event in Karachi, where organised gangs siphon it off to sell to thirsty residents.
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Jordan, Israel Sign Deal to Help Save Dead Sea
Jordan and Israel signed a deal on Thursday to build a pipeline to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea and combat regional water shortages.
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Deliver 35 Buckets of Water a Day or Die: Gang's Threat to Villagers
Gang imposing "water tax" operates in southern Uttar Pradesh.
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Indore declared water scarcity-hit district for 3 months
Due to potable water shortage and declining underground water table, Indore was declared water scarcity-hit district for the next three months beginning April 1, a top official said. District Collector Raghvendra Singh issued the order to this effect on Friday, quoting him an official of the state Public Relation Department said on Saturday....
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Maharashtra drops charges, flies Chandrababu Naidu out
The action in the Chandrababu Naidu episode on Tuesday shifted to the Aurangabad airport, where after high drama, the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and his party men were flown out to Hyderabad. The TDP legislators were refusing to board a 100-seater Air India plane arranged for them by the Maharashtra government and lying on the tarma...
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At disputed Babhali Dam, fragile peace holds
Visit the Babhali barrage in Maharashtra, and the still waters there reveal none of the storm raging over politicians from two different states.Andhra Pradesh has challenged the dam in the Supreme Court, arguing that it gives so much water to Maharashtra that it will turn the area downstream, in Andhra's Telangana region, into a desert.Pradeep Ambe...
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Waterless in Andhra's seat of power
The sweltering heat has hit the powerful and the powerless alike. Contrary to the normal belief that the seat of power in any state would be exempted from the hardships of water and power crisis, the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad, does not have clean drinking water, forcing the govt to shell out money to buy water. Employees say the muddy...
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No End In Sight For Dharavi's Water Issues
Erratic supply, illegal connections, pressure of tanker mafia, and contamination make life worse in peak summers.
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Tamil Nadu Asks Andhra Pradesh To Release Water For Chennai
With water scarcity in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam on Saturday requested his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu to release water from the Krishna river.
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Fluorosis: A Vicious Disease, But There Is Hope
With dreams in her eyes, Kali Bai married Tol Singh from Jhabua in Madya Pradesh and happily entered village Miyati ten years ago. That happiness did not last long as she soon fell ill. The presence of fluoride in the village’s water made her weak every passing day. Her bones became a tangled mass and looked as if they would collapse any moment. ...
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Bangladesh Failing To Spare Millions From Arsenic Poisoning
For more than two decades, Nasima Begum and her family have been drawing water from a tube well painted red to warn Bangladeshi villagers that it's tainted by arsenic, knowing they're slowly poisoning themselves.
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Millions Drinking Arsenic-Laced Water In Bangladesh: Human Rights Watch
Twenty million poor Bangladeshis are still drinking water contaminated with arsenic, two decades after the potentially deadly toxin was discovered in the supply, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Over 3.6 Crore Rural People At Risk Due To Unsafe Drinking Water: Government
Over 3.6 crore people living in more than 63,000 rural areas are exposed to health hazards due to drinking water quality problems like excess arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity or nitrate.
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The 'Water Mafias' That Suck Karachi Dry
The moment they saw the city water tanker stop in their neighbourhood, Mohammed and Nayla rushed towards it. That day, the water was free a rare event in Karachi, where organised gangs siphon it off to sell to thirsty residents.
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Jordan, Israel Sign Deal to Help Save Dead Sea
Jordan and Israel signed a deal on Thursday to build a pipeline to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea and combat regional water shortages.
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Deliver 35 Buckets of Water a Day or Die: Gang's Threat to Villagers
Gang imposing "water tax" operates in southern Uttar Pradesh.
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Indore declared water scarcity-hit district for 3 months
Due to potable water shortage and declining underground water table, Indore was declared water scarcity-hit district for the next three months beginning April 1, a top official said. District Collector Raghvendra Singh issued the order to this effect on Friday, quoting him an official of the state Public Relation Department said on Saturday....
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Maharashtra drops charges, flies Chandrababu Naidu out
The action in the Chandrababu Naidu episode on Tuesday shifted to the Aurangabad airport, where after high drama, the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and his party men were flown out to Hyderabad. The TDP legislators were refusing to board a 100-seater Air India plane arranged for them by the Maharashtra government and lying on the tarma...
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At disputed Babhali Dam, fragile peace holds
Visit the Babhali barrage in Maharashtra, and the still waters there reveal none of the storm raging over politicians from two different states.Andhra Pradesh has challenged the dam in the Supreme Court, arguing that it gives so much water to Maharashtra that it will turn the area downstream, in Andhra's Telangana region, into a desert.Pradeep Ambe...
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Waterless in Andhra's seat of power
The sweltering heat has hit the powerful and the powerless alike. Contrary to the normal belief that the seat of power in any state would be exempted from the hardships of water and power crisis, the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad, does not have clean drinking water, forcing the govt to shell out money to buy water. Employees say the muddy...
