"Plastic Bottle" Solution for Arsenic-Contaminated Water Threatening 100 Million People
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 20:00
in Physics & Chemistry
With almost 100 million people in developing countries exposed to dangerously high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, and unable to afford complex purification technology, scientists today described a simple, inexpensive method for removing arsenic based on chopped up pieces of ordinary plastic beverage bottles coated with a nutrient found in many foods and dietary supplements.