Arsenic Risks: Access to Safe Drinking Water

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The risk of arsenic contamination is greater when water is drawn from shallow hand pumps, Sahebganj, Bihar.

Abstract: Groundwater has increasingly been reported to include largely geogenic and anthropogenic contaminants such as iron, bacteria, arsenic, fluoride, nitrates etc. Over the decades, there has been a growing concern about arsenic contamination due to its severe health consequences.

The authors are Associate and Research fellows respectively at SaciWATERs, Hyderabad, manish@saciwaters.org