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Public health strategies for Western Bangladesh that address arsenic, manganese, uranium, and other toxic elements in water [1]

More than 60,000,000 Bangladeshis are drinking water with unsafe concentrations of one or more elements. The aim of this study was to evaluate and improve the drinking water testing and treatment plans for western Bangladesh.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Seth H. Frisbie [2], Erika J. Mitchell [3], Lawrence J. Mastera & et al [4]
Environmental Health Perspectives [5]
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Tags:
Water Quality [6], Arsenic [7], Drinking Water [8], Health Effects [9], Health [10], Arsenic Poisoning [11], Bangladesh [12]
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