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SUBMITTER: Jamil NB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6535723 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jamil Nadia B NB Feng Huan H Ahmed Kazi Matin KM Choudhury Imtiaz I Barnwal Prabhat P van Geen Alexander A
Environmental science & technology 20190507 10
About 20 million rural Bangladeshis continue to drink well water containing >50 μg/L arsenic (As). This analysis argues for reprioritizing interventions on the basis of a survey of wells serving a population of 380,000 conducted one decade after a previous round of testing overseen by the government. The available data indicate that testing alone reduced the exposed population in the area in the short term by about 130,000 by identifying the subset of low As wells that could be shared at a total ...[more]