An estimated 43,000 people die each year from arsenic-related diseases in Bangladesh, according to one study. Now, in a cruel twist, the situation could be set to worsen.

An estimated 43,000 people die each year from arsenic-related illness. Bangladesh isn’t taking basic, obvious steps to get arsenic out of the drinking water of millions of its rural poor.

Arsenic is not just a Bangladesh problem—it can be found in drinking water supplies around the world. Maine, Massachusetts, Texas, ...

Dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water is from human alteration of landscape. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 8, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 11 / 091115134130.htm.

The arsenic problem in Bangladesh was born of good intentions. For 20 years, government and U.N. officials, as well as Bangladeshi aid groups, ...

CHANDIPUR, Bangladesh – CHANDIPUR, Bangladesh (AP) — Hanufa Bibi stoops in a worn sari and mismatched flip-flops to work the hand pump on her backyard well. Spurts of clear water wash grains ...

Twenty years ago, Smith and colleagues described groundwater arsenic (As) contamination in Bangladesh as the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history." An estimated 60 million people were ...

AMHERST, Mass. - Naturally-occurring arsenic in Bangladesh's groundwater has been identified as one of the world's great humanitarian disasters, with millions people at risk of cancers and other ...

He raised concerns that “the drinking water standards for arsenic in both India and Bangladesh are many decades out of date,” which makes the population even more vulnerable.

Frisbie, who spent time in Bangladesh producing maps of arsenic-affected drinking water, said the toll was clear. “I’ve walked into villages where no one’s over 30,” he told CNN.