ArticleJournal of water, sanitation, and hygiene for development : a journal of the International Water Association2017
Reduction in exposure to arsenic from drinking well-water in Bangladesh limited by insufficient testing and awareness.
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- Environmental Heavy Metal Contamination from Electronic Waste (E-Waste) Recycling Activities Worldwide: A Systematic Review from 2005 to 2017.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- An information intervention in India reduces consumption of arsenic-contaminated drinking water and has small effects on health.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Well-Switching to Reduce Arsenic Exposure in Bangladesh: Making the Most of Inaccurate Field Kit Measurements.GeoHealth · 2021Article
- Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh.The World Bank economic review · 2021Article
- Soil arsenic but not rice arsenic increasing with arsenic in irrigation water in the Punjab plains of Pakistan.Plant and soil · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of Different Approaches to Arsenic Mitigation over 18 Years in Araihazar, Bangladesh: Implications for National Policy.Environmental science & technology · 2019Article
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This study considers potential policy responses to the still very high levels of exposure to arsenic (As) caused by drinking water from shallow tubewells in rural Bangladesh. It examines a survey of 4,109 households in 76 villages of Araihazar upazila conducted two years after a national testing campaign swept through the area. The area is adjacent to the region where a long-term study was initiated in 2000 and where households are periodically reminded of health risks associated with well-water elevated in As. Results confirm that testing spurs switching away from unsafe wells, although the 27% fraction who switched was only about half of that in the long-term study area. By village, the fraction of households that switched varied with the availability of safe wells and the distance from the long-term study area. Lacking follow-up testing, two years only after the campaign 21% of households did not know the status of their well and 21% of households with an unsafe well that switched did so to an untested well. Well testing is again urgently needed in Bangladesh and should be paired with better ways to raise awareness and the installation of additional deep community wells.
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