Whenever a woman in Arnetu village conceives, she, instead of celebrating, goes into a depression with thoughts that the child may be born with a physical deformity. This is the general fear among residents of this village, situated near the Ghaggar in the Patran sub-division of Patiala. They opine that due of the industrial waste in the river, the ground water quality in their village has deteriorated. They added that drinking water being fetched from hand pumps and submersible pumps from 150 feet is unfit for human consumption.