As part of a trans-disciplinary research project, a series of surveys and interventions were
conducted in different arsenic-affected regions of rural Bangladesh. Surveys of institutional …

High-level arsenic contamination of drinking water in West Bengal (WB), India is a grave
public health concern, with 26 million people remaining affected. Two decades of research …

Background Millions of villagers in Bangladesh remain exposed to high levels of arsenic
(As) from drinking untreated well-water even though the scale of the problem was …

High arsenic concentrations in groundwater in different states of India have become a major
cause of concern in recent years. The groundwater in the past was considered to be safe for …

High arsenic concentrations in groundwater were first detected in western Bangladesh in the
early 1990s. The arsenic is of natural origin and is believed to be mobilized in the …

Severe arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh has disrupted the idea of using
shallow tube-wells for safe drinking water throughout the country. Millions of tube-wells that …

Abstract Objective To reduce arsenic (As) exposure, we evaluated the effectiveness of
training community members to perform water arsenic (WAs) testing and provide As …

The 1994 discovery of arsenic in ground water in Bangladesh prompted a massive public
health effort to test all tubewells in the country and convince nearly one-quarter of the …

Millions of villagers across South and Southeast Asia are exposed to toxic levels of arsenic
(As) by drinking well water. In order to confirm the field-kit results that Myanmar is also …

In order to reduce the exposure to As naturally occurring in shallow groundwater of the
Bengal Basin, tens of thousands of tubewells tapping deeper aquifers of the Bengal Basin …