Tag: water contamination
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Police beat women who asked politicians to obey Indian Supreme Court order
Toxic chemicals abandoned at its factory by Union Carbide have poisoned the drinking water of 20,000 people. In May 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered local politicians to provide the communities with clean, safe drinking water. The politicians ignored the order. On Tuesday 17 May, 300 people, overwhelmingly women, many with children and babies in…
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Bhopal faces risk of ‘poisoning’: BBC
BY PAUL VICKERS, BBC Thousand of Indians around Bhopal remain at risk of poisoning 20 years after a major disaster in the city, an investigation by the BBC has revealed. Four thousand people died after a gas leak at a pesticide factory owned by US company Union Carbide in 1984. Union Carbide India Limited was…
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Bhopalis in massive water protest as State government ignores Supreme Court order
In May 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered that clean and safe drinking water must be supplied to 14 Bhopali communities which are currently forced to use water dangerously contamined by chemicals leaking from Union Carbide’s abandoned factory. The response of the State government has been to ignore the Supreme Court order. Today in Bhopal…
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Bhopal roads blocked for clean water
Tired of waiting for the government of Madhya Pradesh to obey a five-month-old Supreme Court order to supply clean water to contaminated areas, communities bearing the brunt of Carbide’s water poisoning today forced the issue with a blockade of two of Bhopal’s main roads. The action follows recent meetings with Babulal Gaur, then Minister for…
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Don’t dump your wastes in our lungs
Survivors join Global Action against Waste Incineration, tell Dow, “get your poisonous waste out of Bhopal” Bhopal-based members of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal today joined more than 100 groups around the world participating in a Global Day of Action against the disposal of wastes by burning. The Bhopal ICJB members called on…