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Rising arsenic risk?

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Millions of people in southern Asia rely on arsenic-contaminated groundwater to live. Massive water withdrawals through wells may be increasing the problem by drawing arsenic-mobilizing substances into shallow aquifers and arsenic-contaminated shallow groundwaters into deeper aquifers.

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Figure 1: Tube well used to supply groundwater to villagers.

THOMAS ROSENBERG

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  1. David Polya is at the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. david.polya@manchester.ac.uk,

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  2. Laurent Charlet is at the Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, CNRS & University of Grenoble-I, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, France. charlet38@gmail.com.,

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Polya, D., Charlet, L. Rising arsenic risk?. Nature Geosci 2, 383–384 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo537

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