Hundreds of people across 120 villages
of Manvi taluka are consuming contaminated water of the deadly toxic
chemical, and arsenic. However, in the absence of alternative
sources of water, people in these villages are forced to use the
polluted with fluoride and arsenic content water. After knowing the
real struggles of people in this area, Vimukti made a survey to know
the water quality as how far it is portable to drink. The analyses
of ground water samples of the Taluka revealed that the ground water
quality is generally found that it is not portable. It is only
suitable for irrigation purposes and cultivation. Groundwater in
major parts of Taluka contains fluoride. Excessive fluoride is
caused by mottling of tooth enamel and skeletal deformation even
using arsenic- This contaminated water leads to skin ailments, early
aging and deaths. Vimukti survey shows that water, sanitation and
hygiene needs urgent attention. Due to this people have become the
victims of numerous diseases. Therefore several methods were used to
capture different facts of water, sanitation and hygiene situation.
Questionnaires at household, Gram Panchayat and village levels; and
water quality tests were conducted at 10- 40 sources per GP; with
photographs to capture visual images (and to serve as a quality
monitoring mechanism) were the key tools in this regard. Later water
samples were submitted to the |Gram panchyath leaders to know that
how much water is polluted with fluoride and further memorandums
were submitted to give immediate attention to supply pure drinking
water to the villagers without any delay.
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