“Water, water everywhere—nor any drop to drink.” The plight of Coleridge's ancient mariner
is that of present-day populations in some 70 countries on six different continents. From …

Background Millions of people worldwide are chronically exposed to arsenic through
drinking water, including 35–77 million people in Bangladesh. The association between …

Almost 57 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of arsenicinduced disease as a result of
chronic contamination of drinking water. This was the message of Arsenic crisis today …

More than 30 years after the installation of tube wells in Bangladesh, Maria Argos and
colleagues1 report a prospective cohort study in The Lancet today in which they investigated …

On World Water Day on March 22 experts called attention once again to what has been
called the greatest mass poisoning in history: high concentrations of naturally occurring …

(MIT).“Everybody comes with their different perspective on these things. This cross-talk gives
you a holistic perspective”, says Christiani. At Columbia, one of Graziano's principal …

In this issue, Ursula Gundert-Remy and colleagues contribute a review article about the
need for risk reduction due to high exposure to inorganic arsenic in the general European …

Arsenic occurs naturally underground in parts of Bangladesh, and its contamination of rural
water supplies first came to public attention more than two decades ago. Since then, the …

Maria Argos and co-workers (July 24, p 252) 1 assess the association between arsenic in
drinking water and mortality in rural Bangladesh. A cohort of 11 746 was recruited between …

A1 University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA A2
California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland, California, USA …