India Drinks Poison Daily. Govt Drinks PR.
(Why contaminated water is India’s slow-motion health genocide)
At a petrol bunk, a lizard was floating inside the drinking water tank. Truck drivers and cabbies drink this water every day. If this doesn’t shock you, nothing will. We aren’t talking about isolated incidents. Contaminated drinking water is a nationwide epidemic—and the government pretends it doesn’t exist. Instead of fixing water safety, they’re busy projecting PR campaigns and statues. Here’s how india is being silently poisoned:
1. Water Coolers or Disease Dispensers?
From railway stations to airports to petrol bunks—our so-called “public water facilities” are biological time bombs.
2. Millions Drink This, Millions Fall Sick
Every year, millions of indians contract waterborne diseases—diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A. For many poor families, one infection = financial ruin.
3. Packaged Water Mafia
Fake bottled water brands flood the market. Plastic-wrapped poison is sold as “safe drinking water.” Who’s cracking down? Nobody.
4. The Silent Epidemic
india spends crores on PR slogans like “Jal jeevan Mission” but doesn’t care that a rickshaw driver’s only source of water may be crawling with insects, bacteria, and filth.
5. Accountability = Zero
Why hasn’t a single petrol bunk or station been permanently shut for providing contaminated water? Because in india, human lives are cheaper than election optics.
6. Basic Rights, Still a Luxury
Safe drinking water is not a privilege. It’s the bare minimum for survival. Yet in 2025, indians are still dying because the government cannot deliver this most basic human right.
7. PR > Public Health
Crores for LED birthday shows on Burj Khalifa. zero for safe water systems in bus stands, schools, and rural areas. That’s your taxpayer money at work.
🔥 Bottom Line: This isn’t just dirty water. It’s government-approved poison. Until the state takes real, enforceable action against contaminated water sources, india will remain the land where lizards float in drinking tanks while ministers float in luxury.
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