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Toxic Water, Toxic Crops: India’s Public Health Time Bomb

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China Environment Forum // Choke Point // January 3, 2019 // By Jennifer Möller-Gulland, J. Carl Ganter & Cody T. Pope

This article first appeared on Circle of Blue as part of the multi-year Choke Point: India collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in India.
BENGALURU, India – In a small town in the suburbs of this booming city, K.V. Muniraju knows all too well the decade-old battle of securing water for his crops. With groundwater tables continuously falling, the middle-aged farmer once borrowed heavily to dig wells ever deeper.

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