Villagers Ill from Poisoned Water. / Ma Guihua.
by Guihua, Ma; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 41Environment. Publisher: China Daily, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Arsenic | Drinking water -- Contamination | Groundwater pollution | Public health -- China | WellsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The source of arsenic poisoning in the water is the soil because of some geochemical changes over the years. It is a newly emerging global danger first noticed on a large scale two years ago in Bangladesh and India, where there are approximately 40 million people at risk from drinking arsenic-contaminated water." (CHINA DAILY) The author reports that an alarming number of villagers in China are suffering from arsenic poisoning due to contaminated groundwater.
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Originally Published: Villagers Ill from Poisoned Water, Feb. 12, 2001; pp. 10.
"The source of arsenic poisoning in the water is the soil because of some geochemical changes over the years. It is a newly emerging global danger first noticed on a large scale two years ago in Bangladesh and India, where there are approximately 40 million people at risk from drinking arsenic-contaminated water." (CHINA DAILY) The author reports that an alarming number of villagers in China are suffering from arsenic poisoning due to contaminated groundwater.
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