Water Quality

What are we drinking?

The consumption of poor-quality drinking water can have a serious impact on public health. The degradation of water bodies by human waste and industrial activities can also seriously harm fish and other wildlife even humans.Incredibly, what happened on December 3rd is only one part of the ongoing chemical disaster in Bhopal.A long list of toxic chemicals created and used in Union Carbide's pesticide formulation process lurked in the water, soil, and living organisms around the factory.The vast majority of the more than 20,000 people living in communities that surround the abandoned Union Carbide plant and solar evaporation ponds rely on groundwater for all of their domestic water uses, including drinking. A 2001-2003 survey in Annu Nagar found that 91% of the households interviewed use contaminated hand pumps to supply drink water. Mercury, heavy metals, and VOCs appeared at dangerously high levels in the water samples.

A series of health camps were organized by the Sambhavna Trust Clinic from July 15, 2000 onwards at Atal-Ayub Nagar. Of the 240 persons reporting to the health camps, 181 were tested for Haemoglobin content in their blood. It was found that only 5 % of the persons examined had normal values. That is 40% less than the national average for India.

In my opinion I think that these abandoned plants should be striped down and properly cleaned up so that these places wouldn't have to deal with these problems. i also think that these areas should be made boil all there water before using it, also i think that the government should take part and supply every home with a manual filtering system. this way it could reduce some problems that the water has

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