More than half of south Asia's groundwater too contaminated to use

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More than half of south Asia's groundwater too contaminated to use – study [1]

Salinity and arsenic affect 60% of underground supply across vast Indo-Gangetic Basin, according to research published in Nature Geoscience

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30/08/2016

Source: Guardian (UK) [2]

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