Neal et al,

That's been going on for many years and it's not just Bangladesh, it's all of West Begal.  It is quite frankly the worst environmental disaster in the world.  Makes Bhopal look miniscule by comparison.  Probably 2-3 million folks going to get chronic arsenic poisoning and related cancers.  

Unintended effects.

An agency of WHO wanted to help with all the waterborne diseases that kill children and make adults sick, so they decided to drill tube wells into the most arsenic-containing aquifer.  There was some talk about sequestering the arsenic so the water would be safe to drink, but the cost was too high.  Yeah, I talked to them in the middle of the night and even went there.  12-1/2 hours time difference from hrere.  You find out sometimes you can't fix everything.

They tested the wells and painted the bad ones red, and then the local folk thought the water was sweeter from the red wells.

I was very involved in this for years, and I never found a solution. And as far as I know, nobody else has either.  You got to drink some water every so often, or die of dehydration.

And cholera and dehydration are not good deaths.  I doubt there is one, unless you reach old age and die peacefully in your sleep.

Alan

Alan H. Hall, M.D.

Meddical Toxicologist

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:37 PM, NEAL LANGERMAN <neal**At_Symbol_Here**chemical-safety.com> wrote:

All

 

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