Milestone in the battle against arsenic- and fluoride-contaminated drinking water
Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 10:01
in Earth & Climate
Over 300 million people worldwide use groundwater contaminated with arsenic or fluoride as a source of drinking water. Now a research team has developed a method whereby the risk of contamination in a given area can be estimated using geological, topographical and other environmental data without having to test samples from every single groundwater resource.