Bhopal Disaster Continues to Be a Plague ; Poison has Seeped Into Village Wells
The Washington Times › November 22, 2004
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Like a phantom, the poison first came on a breeze. When tank No. 610 blew at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in 1984, it unleashed a milky fog that would extinguish more than 15,000 lives in this ancient city.
Two decades later, residents say, a second poisonous onslaught brews underground. Rainwater, they say, has washed an assortment of toxins left at the decaying Union Carbide factory into the groundwater of the same slums, and people drink from tainted wells there.See the full content of this document
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Bhopal Disaster Continues to Be a Plague ; Poison has Seeped Into Village Wells
On a recent afternoon in Atal Ayub Nagar, the worst polluted slum, a circle of women waited their turns to fill plastic jugs at a well, while two grimy boys hunched shin-deep in a tiny black pond and fished out discarded cookies. Several studies have shown the neighborhood's water to contain a cocktail of poisons such as lead, mercury and organic compounds known to attack the liver, kidney and nervous system.
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