“When I was in my maayka (maternal home) before my marriage, I had no spots on my body…the problems came up after coming here. The water is really bad,” says Seemadevi, in Karkatpur village of Ghazipur district in Uttar Pradesh.
“The disease first happened to my father- and mother-in-law; now it is happening to us. Then it’d happen to children…would anyone like to marry off their daughter here,” asks the 40-year-old, who suffers from skin ailments due to exposure to high levels of arsenic.
