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Published online 15 February 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030210-14
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Asia's arsenic crisis deepens
Another Indian state succumbs to well water poisoning.
New cases of arsenic poisoning in India's Ganges Basin suggest that a crisis in the sub-continent could extend much farther than previously thought1. Untold numbers of the region's 449 million residents could be exposed to dangerous levels of the element in their drinking water.
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