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If and where they do get water, it's not safe to drink [1]

For Rs 1.9 crore, three deep tubewells and a distribution network were set up in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district. Six years on, these wells supply arsenic-laced water to 14000 villagers.

Publication Date: 
05/03/2008
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Tubewells [3], Drinking Water [4], Water Supply [5], Groundwater Quality [6], Raipur (D) [7], Jharkhand [8], Karnataka [9], Madhya Pradesh [10]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/indian-express-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tubewells
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-supply
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/groundwater-quality
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/raipur-d
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jharkhand
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/karnataka
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/madhya-pradesh