ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Rising arsenic risk?

D. Polya (1) , L. Charlet (2)

1 SEAES - School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences [Manchester]
2 LGIT - Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique

Today, over 100 million people worldwide rely on groundwater that is contaminated with arsenic. Exposure is greatest in southern Asia, where arsenic trapped in buried sediments leaches into groundwaters that support heavily populated regions

D. Polya, L. Charlet. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Rising arsenic risk?. Nature Geoscience, 2009, 2 (6), pp.383-384. ⟨10.1038/ngeo537⟩. ⟨insu-00447971⟩