Is Arsenic In Your Drinking Water?
Arsenic in drinking water is affecting more than 70 countries and 137 million people. Large numbers of people are unknowingly exposed to unsafe levels of arsenic in their drinking water.
In Bangladesh hundreds of thousands of people are likely to die from cancers of the lung, bladder and skin caused by arsenic. Arsenic enters water supplies from natural deposits in the Earth or from agricultural and industrial practices.
A safe limit of 10 parts per billion of arsenic in water supplies, but 57 million drink water with a level of more than 50 ppb. New arsenic pollution is expected to occur in parts of southeast and southwest Asia, the western parts of South and Central America, and some areas in Africa.
August 30, 2007 12:53 PM | Category: Water