Well wishing
arsenic tainted well water could be killing 3,000 people each year in Bangladesh; digging some wells deeper could save 70 per cent of the victims. These are the findings of a study by geochemists from the us-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit). "Hardly any reliable data exist about the impacts of arsenic. Therefore, we wanted to at least have a rough picture of how bad the situation is,' says Charles Harvey, the lead author of the controversial study.
Arsenic was traced in the aquifers of Bangladesh and West Bengal during the early 1990s, after villagers developed cancerous skin lesions. Today the problem has assumed lethal proportions, and public health experts describe it as "the worst mass poisoning in the history of the world' (see:
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