Poisoned waters traced to source

Charles F. Harvey
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Charles F. Harvey: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. charvey@mit.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7203, 415-416

Abstract: South Asia's well-water is widely polluted with arsenic, but no one has located the source. A study on the Mekong River finds that contamination begins in pond sediments, and is spread by groundwater flow to wells.

Date: 2008
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