A man died while many people were hospitalized due to gastroenteritis in Luddan on Wednesday.

A gastro patient, Noor Ahmed, 50, was being taken to Luddan rural health centre (RHC) but he died just before reaching the RHC.

A dispenser told Dawn that scores of gastro patients were brought to the RHC.

The health department has established a camp in this area and started vaccinating the people.

Hundreds of gallons of groundwater flow to the surface in rivulets here each hour, helping to create this town's signature spring, a lush current typical of northern New England. Just uphill, a meadow stretches to the doorstep of Daniel Antonovich, a businessman with plans to bottle and sell about 250,000 gallons a day from the spring.

A new study adds to arsenic's notoriety as a cause of cancer and favored murder mystery poison by suggesting it also plays a role in diabetes.

PANJIM, AUG 19

Mariappa, a daily wage worker from Mutharayanapura in Kanakapura taluk, recently made a startling discovery. He found that the 160-foot borewell that irrigated the farm he works on had suddenly gone dry. Groundwater, which had once been in abundance here, was finally struck only at 350 ft.

By Rashme Sehgal

New Delhi,Aug. 17: An RTI filed by the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan (YJA) with the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) has highlighted that quasi-government organisations are illegally extracting huge quantities of water from the Yamuna flood plain.

Increased arsenic in soil and water may sneak into the food chain, as it is more or less present in all types of crops in the country's arsenic-affected areas with some crops, such as arum, showing much more contamination than the internationally allowable standard, according to a group survey.

Smriti Kak Ramachandran

10 Aug 2008, 0433 hrs IST, Vijaysinh Parmar ,TNN

AHMEDABAD: When residential societies show consciousness towards the environment by taking initiatives on their own, it's indeed a heartening trend.

Manali Apartments, near Indian Institute of Management in Vastrapur, has set an outstanding example of this by implementing an artificial groundwater recharge system. Every drop of rainwater is recharged here.

Access to water and control over it is not only a matter of survival but an issue of democratic participation of all citizens in the management of their country's natural resources, particularly as conflicts over water increase.

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