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World Service,24 Jun 1999,28 mins

Bangladesh's Poisoned Water

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The problem of tube wells in Bangladesh which are pumping up contaminated water containing arsenic. The body can't excrete the arsenic and the poisoning is slow as the early symptoms are invisible.

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