{"id":643,"date":"2007-09-19T08:33:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T12:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=643"},"modified":"2007-09-19T08:33:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T12:33:39","slug":"ibnlive-talks-to-some-affected-people-in-sukinda-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/643","title":{"rendered":"IBNLIVE talks to some affected people in Sukinda Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following are some excerpts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/2-indian-town-in-worlds-most-polluted-places-list\/48951-3.html\">from that report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"txt\" id=\"font_text\">&#8230; Makara Dehuri&#8217;s been steadily losing weight. The 35-year-old miner from Ostpala village doesn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\" id=\"font_text\">Over 2 lakh people in Sukinda suffer from some form of hexavalent chromium poisoning because of the untreated water discharged by the mines into the Brahmani River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\" id=\"font_text\">Sukinda contains one largest open cast chromite ore mines in the world. As much as 60 percent of drinking water here is poisoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\" id=\"font_text\">\u201cDrinking water is a major problem for us. If we tell our boss he will suspend us from our job,\u201d says a villager in Orissa, Makara Dehuri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\" id=\"font_text\">The recent study has chosen these places for the severity of its toxins, its impact on human health and the extent of damage caused. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Somebody should file a PIL or sue the government and the mining industry in Sukinda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following are some excerpts from that report. &#8230; Makara Dehuri&#8217;s been steadily losing weight. The 35-year-old miner from Ostpala village doesn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong with him. Over 2 lakh people in Sukinda suffer from some form of hexavalent chromium poisoning because of the untreated water discharged by the mines into the Brahmani River. Sukinda contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,9,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-district-jajpur","category-orissa-mining-and-minerals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}