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CNN.com: Thousands ill from mysterious kidney disease, but what’s the cause?

"Increasingly, the finger is being pointed at water," said Herath Manthrithilake, head of Sri Lanka programs at IWMI.

Is groundwater hiding a deadly secret in Sri Lanka’s paddy lands?

A mystery killer is striking thousands of farming families in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province. Insidious as it is deadly, the clues to its identity may flow in the groundwater that irrigates crops and slakes thirsts.

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