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In rural West Bengal, India, life is tenuous for millions of people. Desperate poverty, hunger, and disease are a daily reality. To make matters worse, their water is killing them. With every drink and every meal, hundreds of thousands of people are slowly poisoned by the very water they need to survive.
Residents in eight of this regions 19 districts are drinking and cooking with groundwater contaminated with naturally occurring, highly toxic arsenic. Tasteless and colorless, the arsenic has slowly seeped into their water sources and then into their bodies.
Thankfully, village-by-village, simple, locally developed solutions are making a change for the better. These solutions provide much more than safe water. They're empowering communities and contributing to local economies by creating new business and job opportunities.
Source of the Problem
Arsenic is a naturally occurring semi-metallic compound found in groundwater around the world--including in Bangladesh, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, parts of the United States and India. Some argue the increasing occurrence of arsenic in groundwater might be the result of a rapid and significant drawdown of aquifers as...
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