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Arsenic and Water

The World Health Organization’s Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality, 2004

UNESCO Courier Report on the origin of Bangladesh’s Arsenic poisoned wells.

An Article from Environmental Health Perspectives on Arsenic

Physicist Richard Wilson has taken up the cause of Arsenic poisoning and has a wealth of resources on his website, including the Arsenic Foundation.

A study of well-water and Arsenic stability in Nevada. See also ?: Steinmaus, C., Yuan, Y., Bates, M.N., Smith, A.H., 2003. “Case-control study of bladder cancer and drinking water arsenic in the western United States.” Am. J. Epidemiol. 158, 1193–1201.

Water Resources Development, Vol. 17, No. 4, 479–480, 2001

SOS Arsenic , a website with lots of info about Bangladesh and its Arsenic problem, including a page on some current mitigation efforts.

Other Arsenic removal schemes

The SONO Filter by Abel Hussam of George Mason, Grainger Prize Winner 2007

PUR sachets for purifying water by Proctor and Gamble.

brief article on Pur packets

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