Poison for parched throats:

Poison for parched throats: Water in Andhra district is high on flouride content
By A. Srinivasa Rao
PUBLISHED:00:46, 15 July 2012 | UPDATED:00:46, 15 July 2012
Crooked bones, twisted limbs and deformed bodies sat in the doorways, eyes vacant, staring into the horizon.
Movement for them is a curse, each day a torture, as they struggle to find answers to government apathy that has left them dwarfed and shrivelled, thanks to fluoride poisoning of ground water.

Most people living in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh have to survive on contaminated ground water, which is high on fluoride content. In fact, the amount of fluoride is as high as 10 parts per millilitre (ppm), as against a permissible limit of 0.5 to 1 ppm....


We are told that fluoride at 1ppm has no affect on the body apart from teeth - do we believe it?