Global Update: Poisoned Wells: In Asia, Cutting Arsenic Risk in Water Through Well-Drilling Techniques

Monday, May 31, 2010 - 15:00 in Health & Medicine

Arsenic is so common in groundwater in Bangladesh, Nepal, western India, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam that their drinking water has been called “the largest poisoning of a population in history.”

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