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Arsenic Poisoning in India - [Must Read]

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Gigacore
Gigacore Original post #1
Sep 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM
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Over 70 million people in eastern India and Bangladesh are thought to be exposed to harmful levels of arsenic in the water and rice that they consume daily. Researchers who believe that one in every hundred residents in this area is close to death from arsenic poisoning now might have a solution.
Source

Thankfully, a solution has been found, click here.
Rahim
Rahim #2
Sep 12, 2008 at 4:51 PM
^Got to know this while watching "Who Killed Napoleon" on History Channel. Poor people :(
Garbage
Garbage #3
Sep 12, 2008 at 4:55 PM
hmm...

/me thinks Gigacore is a MASEEHA... He founded a solution too... :p

Jokes apart... but its really bad..
Gigacore
Sep 12, 2008 at 5:08 PM
hmm...

/me thinks Gigacore is a MASEEHA... He founded a solution too... :p

Jokes apart... but its really bad..

I wish u were in east india.. :eek:
Garbage
Garbage #5
Sep 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM
who's east BTW ?? :D

Stop being offtopic Gigacore the naab !! :X
Rahim
Rahim #7
Sep 12, 2008 at 5:25 PM
And i forgot , i am from East India :(
Gigacore
Sep 12, 2008 at 5:27 PM
@ thewisecrab, we were not fighting, but we had some serious discussion going on IRC, so all this offtopics..

once again sorry for the off topic..

Hope all the east Indians in this forum take care of themselves and their loved one's :)
slugger
slugger #9
Sep 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM
why go to the brits. Indians have developed the technology in the country

A PROCESS FOR THE TREATMENT OF ARSENIC CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER
Faun
Faun #10
Sep 12, 2008 at 7:08 PM
what is the source of Arsenic there ?
slugger
slugger #11
Sep 13, 2008 at 11:01 AM
^^
naturally occuring

*www.unesco.org/courier/2001_01/uk/planet.htm