Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 22 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5598, pp. 1535 - 1537
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5598.1535a
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

News of the Week

BANGLADESH:
Agricultural Pumping Linked to Arsenic

Erik Stokstad

In Bangladesh, millions of wells dug to provide safe drinking water are laced with arsenic from ancient sediments, endangering human health. Now a study on page 1602 suggests that pumping for irrigation might be at least partly to blame for the poisoned water, although the finding is controversial. The results could signal the need for deeper drinking-water wells.

Read the Full Text

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)