Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years.
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Between 33 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to arsenic in the drinking water - a catastrophe that the World Health Organization has called "the largest mass poisoning in history." A new study published in the cu... Read Post
About 60 million people in Bangladesh are exposed to unsafe levels of arsenic in their drinking water, dramatically raising their risk for cancer and other serious diseases. Because most of the contaminated water is near the surface... Read Post
Researchers believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 ... Read Post