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Bhopal children poisoned by toxic water supply
Thousands of innocent people are being poisoned in Bhopal, India by the abandoned Union Carbide site leaching highly toxic chemicals into the water supply a report out today confirms.
The site of the World's worst ever industrial accident–the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide India Ltd, has never been cleaned up, and years of monsoon rains have washed its abandoned stockpiles of toxic chemicals in to the soil and groundwater aquifer that is still used by many as a source of drinking water.
Analysis carried out by accredited laboratories in Switzerland and the UK found at least sixteen contaminants at levels greatly exceeding World Health Organization safe guideline levels. Carbon Tetrachloride toxicity was recorded at more than 2400 times the WHO safe guidance level. This is a chemical that was banned in consumer products in the US as long ago as 1970.
Worse still, concentrations of some of the chemicals are still rising. One reading showed that Carbon Tetrachloride toxicity had risen by 270% between May 2008 and June 2009.