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Over 3.6 rural people at risk due to unsafe drinking water [1]

Over 3.6 crore people living in more than 63,000 rural habitations are exposed to health hazards due to drinking water quality problems like excess arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity or nitrate.

Publication Date: 
22/12/2015
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Water Pollution [3], Drinking Water [4], Fluoride [5], Heavy Metals [6], Water Quality [7], Arsenic Poisoning [8], Rural Water Supply [9], Health Effects [10]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/over-36-rural-people-risk-due-unsafe-drinking-water
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-pollution
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fluoride
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/heavy-metals
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-quality
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arsenic-poisoning
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-water-supply
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects