1.   As a collective, people are contributing financially to the installation of new tube wells.

2.   Dangerous levels of arsenic have been found in the ground water, entering millions of people as they drink from a vast system of tube wells.

3.   Dangerous levels of arsenic have been found in the ground water, entering millions of people sip by sip as they drink from a vast system of tube wells.

4.   In response, the government and UNICEF and other aid groups convinced villagers to sink tube wells to tap the underground aquifer.

5.   The United Nations stepped in and, in village after village, encouraged the construction of deep tube wells as the best way of combating water borne diseases.

6.   He said the amount was an emergency allocation and that priority would be given to building gravity feed systems and tube wells in Sabah.

7.   Lack of government investment in the irrigation network, especially canals, has meant a growing reliance on privately dug tube wells, operated with hand pumps.

8.   Mohamad Isa said the department was expected to dig four tube wells to facilitate the additional water supply.

9.   Tube wells have been dug and medicine dispensaries set up near relief camps in schools and abandoned factories in Ranaghat.

10.   Thousands of people who have remained stranded in their flooded villages are drinking polluted water as tube wells were submerged by flood waters, several newspapers reported.