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.

Naturally abundant in the environment and highly toxic, arsenic is present at unsafe levels in the water of around 140 million people in at least 70 countries.

Bangladesh’s government has adopted a protocol to treat people identified with arsenic poisoning, but the outreach group that aids her, Dhaka Community Hospital, says it does not have adequate ...

Despite simple solutions, a fourth of Bangladesh’s population is still exposed to drinking water contaminated with the deadly element.

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 ...

Researchers believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the ...

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 ...

All of Bangladesh is drinking water containing unsafe levels of carcinogenic arsenic Chronic arsenic poisoning not limited to Bangladesh, researchers say ...

Naturally abundant in the environment and highly toxic, arsenic is present at unsafe levels in the water of around 140 million people in at least 70 countries.