Arsenic Contaminates India's Drinking Water [Video]

Sustainable development is a tricky thing. At least 140 million people in Asia are drinking arsenic-contaminated water, and the ever-expanding use of groundwater wells—a growing population needs water to drink, and farmers need it to grow crops to feed them—has been making the situation worse. Pumping out this water has changed the courses of underground streams, so previously clean water now flows through arsenic-laden sediments, and wells that used to be pure in villages once healthy suddenly pump out death. The naturally occurring arsenic kills human cells, leading first to skin scarring and then, as it slowly builds up in the body, to brain damage, heart disease and cancer.

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• Agriculture
• Arsenic
• Groundwater Pollution