ARESNIC IN WATER POISONED 77 MILLION BANGLADESHIS
DHAKA — Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported.
Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded in a study that monitored nearly 12,000 people in the Araihazar district of the capital Dhaka appear to have been caused by arsenic-tainted well water.
By some estimates, between 35 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been chronically exposed to …

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WATER WARS:
WHEN DROUGHT, FLOOD AND GREED COLLIDE

The Struggle ‘With’ Water and ‘For’ Water Is The Next Big Global Crisis

Available on DVD August 31, 2010
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LOS ANGELES (July 2010) – On July 28th, the United Nations General Assembly declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. This was a historic vote meant to improve quality of life for the nearly one billion people who lack clean drinking water, and the over two-and-a-half billion people who do not …