Ensuring Safe Drinking Water in Bangladesh
- 15 December 2006
- journal article
- policy forum
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 314 (5806), 1687-1688
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1133146
Abstract
Excessive levels of arsenic in drinking water is a vast health problem in Southeast Asia. Several viable approaches to mitigation could drastically reduce arsenic exposure, but they all require periodic testing.Keywords
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