Solutions are a must
with the menace of arsenic contamination in groundwater continuing unabated in Bangladesh and India, reuse of surface waterbodies has been proposed as a way out. These waterbodies were abandoned in the past because of bacterial contamination owing to poor sanitation practices. Instead of cleaning them up, the officials had propagated the use of tubewells because of which the arsenic contamination is said to have spurred (see:
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