Researchers aim to stem deaths from arsenic-contaimnated water in the developing world
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 07:56
in Health & Medicine
One in five of all deaths in Bangladesh are caused by drinking water contaminated with arsenic, according to a study published recently in the medical journal The Lancet by an international team of researchers. Some 70 million people are drinking arsenic-contaminated water. The study's publication has generated renewed public interest in finding a quick, cost-effective solution to a problem that is turning into a human catastrophe.