New Solutions For The Arsenic-poisoning Crisis In Asia
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
Every day, more than 140 million people in southern Asia drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Thousands die of cancer each year in what has been called the biggest mass poisoning in history. Now scientists have discovered how arsenic enters the groundwater and are proposing ways to reverse the poisoning.