'Arsenic TimeBomb' facing the World

by asterix | August 30, 2007 at 02:20 am

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About 140 million people, mainly in developing countries, are being poisoned by arsenic in their drinking water, researchers believe.

The first signs that arsenic-contaminated water might be
a major health issue emerged in the 1980s, with the documentation of
poisoned communities in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.