EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Ensuring Safe Drinking Water in Bangladesh
M. F. Ahmed,1 S. Ahuja,2 M. Alauddin,3 S. J. Hug,4 J. R. Lloyd,5 A. Pfaff,6 T. Pichler,7 C. Saltikov,8 M. Stute,9,10 A. van Geen10*
Excessive levels of arsenic in drinking water is a vast health problem in Southeast Asia. Several viable approaches to mitigation could drastically reduce arsenic exposure, but they all require periodic testing.
1Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka -1000, Bangladesh.
2Ahuja Consulting, Calabash, NC 28467, USA.
3Department of Chemistry, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY 10301, USA.
4Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland.
5School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
6Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
7Department of Geology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
8Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
9Department of Environmental Sciences, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
10Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA.
*Correspondence to: {emavangeen@ldeo.columbia.edu}
