Telangana’s women are crippled by arthritis
In rural Telangana, middle-aged women are crippled by arthritis. What they don’t know is that underground water they’ve been drinking for years might be destroying their joints from inside. A study from AIIMS Hyderabad discovered that people drinking untreated underground water face 3.6 times higher odds of developing severe arthritis due to the presence of high amounts of fluoride.