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Police arrange pickets as flood water enters villages in Agency areas of Eluru district in Andhra Pradesh

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Flood-hit People Vulnerable to Waterborne Diseases

VIJAYAWADA: With heavy rainfall and floods in Godavari and Krishna rivers in recent days, the inhabitants of several low-lying areas in eight districts are vulnerable to water-borne diseases like gastroenteritis, typhoid, hepatitis-B etc due to lack of access to safe potable water. Health experts say that with floodwater inundating the low-lying areas mainly in agency areas like Kukkunuru and Velerupadu …

Villagers in Eluru district fight back as aqua farm threatens to pollute drinking water

Fifty-year-old Mariyamma walks about half a kilometre every day carrying a 10-litre steel pot of water from a nearby well to her house. From the time borewells started yielding saline water three decades ago, everyone in the village turned to wells for drinking water. Mariyaraju, a day labourer who filed a case in the High Court against Mr. Sathyanarayana last …

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In the last week of June, Kunja Sai Kumar, a farmer belonging to the Koya tribe, was jubilant as he sat with the 160 families of his community in Mukunuru village for a dinner. “We are apprehensive that the water level in the Godavari will constantly hover above the first flood warning level of 43 ft at Bhadrachalam once the …

With Godavari floodwaters receding a bit, focus shifts to sanitation

With the floodwaters receding slowly, the officers are focussing on aspects such as sanitation, restoration of power supply, and provision of medical aid to the people in the affected habitations. Personnel have been instructed to supply food, drinking water and medicines to the victims through country-made boats,” said West Godavari district Collector P. Prasanthi. Eluru district Special Officer K. Bhaskar, …

Shortage of boats is hampering relief works in the marooned villages in Eluru and West Godavari districts. As water stagnated for the last eight days, only boats are moving in villages,” said Anisetti Babji of Elamanchili Lanka village. West Godavari District Collector P. Prasanthi said about 150 boats and 174 expert swimmers had been deployed in the flood-hit villages for …

Vijayawada: As Godavari river flows in full spate with water level touching 15.07ft at Sir Arthur Cotton barrage in Dowleswaram with a discharge of 15.11 lakh cusecs of water downstream by 8pm, a high alert is on all along the course of the river. Godavari conservator Kasi Visweswara Rao said, “We have identified five to six vulnerable villages including Sundaravalli, …

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Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh Mission for Clean Krishna-Godavari Canals has not taken off, two years after its ambitious launch, due to a variety of reasons. The vision of the Mission was rejuvenating canals and drains in the Krishna and Godavari Delta Systems by stopping water contamination and improving the quality as lakhs of people in Krishna and West Godavari districts …

Eluru AP, Mysterious Illness: Heavy Metals Lead And Nickel Found In Blood Samples, Pesticide In Water

From Saturday hundreds had fallen sick as a mysterious disease had gripped Eluru city in Andhra Pradesh. Over 200 people had fallen sick and one person died due to it. Sample tests conducted to determine the cause has found a high presence of lead and nickel in blood and pesticide in drinking water. Check out below Health Tools- Calculate Your …

Eluru Mystery Disease: Report Says Lead, Nickel in Water and Milk Caused Illness That Affected 500

Lead and nickel content in drinking water and milk was primarily established as the root cause of the mysterious disease in Eluru city of Andhra Pradesh, which so far claimed one life and left over 500 people sick. Based on the preliminary findings of the expert teams from AIIMS and other state and central institutions, health officials presented a report …

Polluted Water or Invisible Virus? Conspiracy Theories as Mystery Disease Takes Over Andhra Pradesh