New Solutions For The Arsenic-Poisoning Crisis In Asia

Every day, more than 140 million people in southern Asia drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Thousands of people in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam die of cancer each year from chronic exposure to arsenic, according to the World Health Organization. Some health experts call it the biggest mass poisoning in history.

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Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on March 31st, 2009