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Nature Geoscience 2, 383 - 384 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ngeo537
Environmental science: Rising arsenic risk?
David Polya1 & Laurent Charlet2
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David Polya is at the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
e-mail: david.polya@manchester.ac.uk -
Laurent Charlet is at the Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, CNRS & University of Grenoble-I, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, France.
e-mail: charlet38@gmail.com.
Abstract
Millions of people in southern Asia rely on arsenic-contaminated groundwater to live. Massive water withdrawals through wells may be increasing the problem by drawing arsenic-mobilizing substances into shallow aquifers and arsenic-contaminated shallow groundwaters into deeper aquifers.
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