ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2019
Effectiveness of Different Approaches to Arsenic Mitigation over 18 Years in Araihazar, Bangladesh: Implications for National Policy.
Article in Environmental science & technology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Returning personal genetic information on susceptibility to arsenic toxicity to research participants in Bangladesh.Environmental research · 2024Article
- Microbial utilization of recently fixed, plant-derived organic carbon in shallow Holocene and Pleistocene aquifers in Bangladesh.Organic geochemistry · 2023Article
- Low-cost informational intervention reduced drinking water arsenic exposure in Bangladesh.PNAS nexus · 2023Article
- Sulfate reduction accelerates groundwater arsenic contamination even in aquifers with abundant iron oxides.Nature water · 2023Article
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- 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
- Child marriage, maternal serum metal exposure, and risk of preterm birth in rural Bangladesh: evidence from mediation analysis.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2021Article
- Origin of Groundwater Arsenic in a Rural Pleistocene Aquifer in Bangladesh Depressurized by Distal Municipal Pumping.Water resources research · 2020Article
- Arsenic contamination of Bangladesh aquifers exacerbated by clay layers.Nature communications · 2020Article
- New Approaches to Identifying and Reducing the Global Burden of Disease From Pollution.GeoHealth · 2020Article
- Research Participants' Attitudes towards Receiving Information on Genetic Susceptibility to Arsenic Toxicity in Rural Bangladesh.Public health genomics · 2020Article
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Abstract
About 20 million rural Bangladeshis continue to drink well water containing >50 μg/L arsenic (As). This analysis argues for reprioritizing interventions on the basis of a survey of wells serving a population of 380,000 conducted one decade after a previous round of testing overseen by the government. The available data indicate that testing alone reduced the exposed population in the area in the short term by about 130,000 by identifying the subset of low As wells that could be shared at a total cost of <US$1 per person whose exposure was reduced. Testing also had a longer term impact, as 60,000 exposed inhabitants lowered their exposure by installing new wells to tap intermediate (45-90 m) aquifers that are low in As at their own expense of US$30 per person whose exposure was reduced. In contrast, the installation of over 900 deep (>150 m) wells and a single piped-water supply system by the government reduced exposure of little more than 7000 inhabitants at a cost of US$150 per person whose exposure was reduced. The findings make a strong case for long-term funding of free well testing on a massive scale with piped water or groundwater treatment only as a last resort.
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