Nepotism and Neglect | Millions of people in Bangladesh still drinking arsenic-laced water

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Nepotism and Neglect |  Millions of people in Bangladesh still drinking arsenic-laced water

Hanufa Bibi, 45, holds a vessel of contaminated water from a well in her village in Chandipur, about 120km east of Dhaka, in Bangladesh.Nearly 20 million Bangladeshis are still drinking water poisoned with high levels of arsenic despite millions of wells being tested and hundreds of thousands of safe ones having been bored to avert a major health crisis, a new report has suggested.

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Human Rights Watch Report: Nepotism and Neglect

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https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/04/06/nepotism-and-neglect/failing-response-arsenic-drinking-water-bangladeshs-rural

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