Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

ENVIRONMENTAL VENTURE PROJECTS: Freshwater: Freshwater

Mitigating future arsenic catastrophes in Asia: An integrative study of processes controlling arsenic release induced by land use »

Asia - 2004

Arsenic is having a devastating impact on human health in Asia. In Bangladesh and West Bengal alone, an estimated 57 million people are exposed to drinking water with arsenic concentrations exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended limit of 10 µg/L. It is our hypothesis that different land uses...

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