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<em>High levels of arsenic in the water supply is afflicting many villages in eastern Uttar Pradesh but the government hasn&rsquo;t been able to design and implement any program to contain the menace<br />
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Arsenic contamination in groundwater killing villagers in Ballia -Tarun Kanti Bose

-Village Square High levels of arsenic in the water supply is afflicting many villages in eastern Uttar Pradesh but the government hasn’t been able to design and implement any program to contain the menace Ballia (Uttar Pradesh): Ekawana Rajpur is a village in Belhari administrative block along the banks of the Ganga and 16km from Ballia town in eastern Uttar Pradesh where villagers commonly suffer from afflictions such as itchy skin lesions, changes in skin colour, and hardening and thickening of skins into nodules. These afflictions are due to arsenic contamination of their drinking water sources. A few decades ago, Ekawana Rajpur was on the southern bank of the Ganga. The river then changed its course and devoured agricultural lands and homesteads. The displaced villagers settled on the northern bank. Situated 3km away from the National Highway, a majority of the villagers are small and marginal farmers. The village has been worst affected of arsenic toxicity (arsenicosis), though numerous cases of deaths due to the ailment have been reported from nearby Sughar Chapra, Tiwaritola, Gangapur and Choube Chapra villages, as villagers depend on hand pumps for drinking water. Arsenic fallout Basanti Singh, a 71-year-old resident of Ekawana Rajpur, had a cancerous wound on her right ear and she was operated at New Delhi’s Batra Hospital. She has black and white lesions on right and left foot. She suffers from breathlessness. “In 2008 my husband Dinanath died of cancer. He had a cancerous wound on his left foot from which blood and pus continuously oozed. He had black and white spots (lesions) all over his body,” she told VillageSquare.in. “He suffered from skin cancer. Two fingers of his left hand developed ulcers and was amputated.” Please click here to read more.