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Increase in Diarrheal Disease Associated with Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh
BACKGROUND Millions of households throughout Bangladesh have been exposed to high levels of arsenic (As) causing various deadly diseases by drinking groundwater from shallow tubewells for the past 30 years. Well testing has been the most effective form of mitigation because it has induced massive switching from tubewells that are high (>50 µg/L) in As to neighboring wells that are low in As. A ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revue des sciences de l’eau
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1718-8598
DOI: 10.7202/1008535ar