News tagged with groundwater arsenic

Tracing arsenic threat to groundwater

In the driest inhabited continent on earth, underground water accounts for a large portion of Australia’s most precious resource – freshwater.

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers study toenails as marker for arsenic exposure

(PhysOrg.com) -- UA scientists have teamed up to study the relationship between arsenic in human toenails and arsenic concentration in drinking water. Exposure to arsenic is associated with several chronic diseases ranging ...

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created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Natural processes can limit spread of arsenic in water, study says

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many people in Bangladesh and other parts of Asia have been poisoned by drinking groundwater laced with arsenic—not introduced by humans, but leached naturally from sediments, and now ...

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created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists pinpoint origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water

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 ...

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created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 1

Geologists studying groundwater arsenic levels in India empower Bengali women, children

A Kansas State University geologist and graduate student are finding that the most important tools in their fieldwork on groundwater arsenic pollution are women and children armed with pamphlets and testing kits.

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1