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Every morning, across millions of Indian homes, someone fills a glass from a tap, a borewell, or a pot of water the family has trusted for years. Nobody questions it. It is just water.
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But a study asks a question that science has circled for decades without a firm answer: what if the water we drink every day carries the seeds of a disease that slowly dismantles the brain?
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Parkinson’s disease does not arrive loudly. It begins with a tremor in one hand. Then the body stiffens. Then every step slows down. More than ten million people live with it across the world.
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People who drew their drinking water from newer groundwater, water that fell as rain within the last 70 to 75 years, carried a measurably higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.
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Those who drank from carbonate aquifers, underground limestone reservoirs that allow water to travel fast through cracks and fractures, faced a 24 percent higher risk compared to people drawing from other water systems.
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Against those drinking from glacial aquifers, the risk stood 62 percent higher.
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The study does not prove that drinking water causes Parkinson’s. It shows an association.