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Millions drinking arsenic tainted water -env

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

Summary:

From Hungary to Chile to the United States, people are drinking from arsenic-tainted wells dug from the 1970s to the present.

MIT Team created a filter with layers of sand, brick chips, gravel, and iron nails, which chemically bind arsenic to them as one solution.

Shallower surface wells that don't reach down into arsenic-tainted aquifers cost about $1,000 for a well that could supply 300 to 500 people.

Conclusion: These wells were originally built to prevent tainted drinking water from the surface, but researchers neglected to test for arsenic, now researchers scramble to fix this new problem.

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