toxic water causing major health crisis in Bangladesh,despite millions of wells being tested and thousands being boredNearly 20 million Bangladeshis are still drinking water poisoned with high levels of arsenic despite millions of wells being tested and hundreds of thousands of secure ones having been bored to avert a major health crisis, a new report has suggested.
The lack of progress in improving what the UNs World Health Organisation called “the largest mass poisoning of a population in history” in the 1990s is blamed on government nepotism, or wealthy country neglect and NGOs losing sight of the problem,says Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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Source: theguardian.com