Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
News
Nature Medicine 12, 983 (2006)
Published online: 30 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nm0906-983b
Text messages dig up pure water for Bangladesh's poor
Alisa Opar1
- New York
Abstract
New database tells villagers how deep their wells should be.
The teenage craze of text messaging will soon enable Bangladeshi villagers to tap into safe water supplies. A new program developed by Columbia University scientists uses cell phones to help villagers digging wells avoid water contaminated with arsenic.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.
NEWS AND VIEWS
Environmental science Arsenic meets dense populationsNature Geoscience News and Views (01 Aug 2008)
