For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />Villagers in eastern India are sick from drinking contaminated water. It's a problem for many in rural India... due to a lack of clean water sources.<br /><br />Villagers of the Latehar district of India's Jharkhand state have fallen sick after drinking contaminated water from nearby wells.<br /><br />Many people have developed diarrhea, while some have died... no official numbers are available.<br /><br />[Purushottam Singh, Villager]:<br />"There are 150 hutments and the villagers are not so cautious about their health. They are drinking contaminated water from the wells and are falling sick. Many have died."<br /><br />Local doctors have tended to the sick, but the problem of contaminated water is yet to be addressed.<br /><br />Contamination of large numbers of drinking water sources is a serious problem in the rural areas of Latehar. It's mainly due to unsanitary conditions around the drinking water sources.<br /><br />An estimated 88 percent of diarrhea deaths worldwide are due to unsafe water and poor sanitation or hygiene.<br /><br />India has the highest number of annual diarrhea deaths... more than 386,000.
