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Effectiveness of Different Approaches to Arsenic Mitigation over 18 Years in Araihazar, Bangladesh: Implications for National Policy.


ABSTRACT: About 20 million rural Bangladeshis continue to drink well water containing >50 ?g/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 cost of 150 m) wells and a single piped-water supply system by the government reduced exposure of little more than 7000 inhabitants at a cost of US$150 per person whose exposure was reduced. The findings make a strong case for long-term funding of free well testing on a massive scale with piped water or groundwater treatment only as a last resort.

SUBMITTER: Jamil NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6535723 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Effectiveness of Different Approaches to Arsenic Mitigation over 18 Years in Araihazar, Bangladesh: Implications for National Policy.

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]

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