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Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Heavy metals take months, to years to debilitate, or kill.



> Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Your point being? What do you think water treatment plants are for?


My point is, even with plutonium in water, India would have much bigger, and harder to fix problems that that.

Finding plutonium would be nowhere near as hard as thousands of sources of untreated sewage.




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