Testing For Arsenic in Drinking Water Without Sampling Wells?

Water Works
By Tasha Eichenseher
Aug 22, 2013 6:09 PMNov 3, 2019 5:54 PM
Map of Arsenic in China
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That would be wonderful, as an estimated 140 million people worldwide consume groundwater containing unsafe levels of arsenic. There just simply aren’t enough resources to test the hundreds of thousands of wells, many in developing countries and rural areas, which could be harboring this toxic substance.

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