Sentences with phrase «arsenic taints the water»

Groundwater from deep «tube wells» has been widely used for drinking water in Bangladesh since the 1970s, but it has emerged more recently that naturally occurring arsenic taints the water in many of the country's 10 million wells.

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In rural Cambodia, safe drinking water is not something people can take for granted; arsenic has tainted many water sources, and poisoning has become common in many communities.

I had a particularly fascinating time interviewing Richard Wilson, a professor emeritus of physics at Harvard who has lately been studying risks associated with everything from nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic - tainted water supply.

This is the last paragraph Dr. Wilson writes in the web page you can get to from «nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic - tainted water supply.»