{"id":37,"date":"2019-12-31T07:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T07:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calcuttarescue.org.cp-in-9.webhostbox.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2020-05-16T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:09:15","slug":"safe-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/safe-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenic Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"37\" class=\"elementor elementor-37\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-110b42f1 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"110b42f1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d8f4fdd\" data-id=\"3d8f4fdd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fba715e animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7fba715e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Arsenic project<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-592d2cd4 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-items-stretch elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"592d2cd4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-32a361fb elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"32a361fb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;,&quot;animation_delay&quot;:1000}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cc28483 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3cc28483\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Thirty million people living in rural West Bengal are at risk from arsenic poisoning as the chemical is leaching out of the bedrock into wells and bore-holes.<\/p><p>Since the problem was identified in the 1990s hundreds of thousands of people in the area have developed the skin lesions associated with chronic arsenic poisoning.\u00a0<\/p><p>The long-term effects of arsenic poisoning include cancer of the skin and other organs, progressive damage to the nervous system and muscles and, eventually death.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-78df51d4 animated-slow elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"78df51d4\" data-element_type=\"column\" 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These filters provide safe drinking water to 2,000 families.\u00a0<\/p><p>The water is analysed regularly to ensure it is below the safe level of 0.05 mg\/l laid down by the World Health Authority.\u00a0<\/p><p>All the filters have been installed with electric pumps which makes them more popular with the villagers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenic project Thirty million people living in rural West Bengal are at risk from arsenic poisoning as the chemical is leaching out of the bedrock into wells and bore-holes. Since the problem was identified in the 1990s hundreds of thousands of people in the area have developed the skin lesions associated with chronic arsenic poisoning.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}