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Arsenic-hit village now sells packaged water [1]

Once forced to drink arsenic- contaminated ground water, residents of a remote hamlet in West Bengal near Indo-Bangla border are now purifying water from ponds and selling packaged safe drinking wa

Publication Date: 
03/02/2015
Tribune (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
West Bengal [3], 24 Parganas (N) [4], Water Pollution [5], Arsenic [6], Groundwater Pollution [7], Drinking Water [8], Health Effects [9]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/tribune-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/24-parganas-n
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-pollution
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arsenic
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/groundwater-pollution
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects