Bangladesh's Arsenic Poisoning: Who Is to Blame?. / Fred Pearce.
by Pearce, Fred; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 41Environment. Publisher: Public Domain, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): UNICEF | Arsenic | Drinking water -- Contamination | Groundwater pollution | Public health -- Bangladesh | WellsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In the 1970s, international agencies headed by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) began pumping millions of dollars of aid money into Bangladesh for tubewells to provide 'clean' drinking water. According to the World Health Organization, the direct result has been the biggest outbreak of mass poisoning in history. Up to half the country's tubewells, now estimated to number 10 million, are poisoned. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands will die." (UNESCO COURIER) The author reports that the same agencies responsible for contaminating the water with their tubewell project are now struggling to halt the mass poisoning.
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Originally Published: Bangladesh's Arsenic Poisoning: Who Is to Blame?, Jan. 2001; pp. 10-13.
"In the 1970s, international agencies headed by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) began pumping millions of dollars of aid money into Bangladesh for tubewells to provide 'clean' drinking water. According to the World Health Organization, the direct result has been the biggest outbreak of mass poisoning in history. Up to half the country's tubewells, now estimated to number 10 million, are poisoned. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands will die." (UNESCO COURIER) The author reports that the same agencies responsible for contaminating the water with their tubewell project are now struggling to halt the mass poisoning.
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