News
May 11, 2009
Until now, arsenic poisoning has been considered incurable. Now, Viola Vitalis, after several years of trials has manufactured the first commercial batch of medicine that cures arsenic poisoning.
April 29, 2008
Global fluoride and arsenic contamination of water mapped
March 31, 2008
The Swedish Sustainability Society has decided to promote clinics for arsenic sufferers in Bangladesh. The clinics promise complete and relatively rapid cure for most patients whose illness has not progressed too far.
September 3, 2007
Arsenic in drinking water a global threat to health
Read article
Aug 6, 2006
A new
guideline has been established for arsenic in Canada
at 0.010 milligrams per litre.
Read article.
July 28, 2006
Article in The Daily Star, Dhaka
March, 2005
New help for
small water drinking-water utilities from USEPA.
See
link to Arsenic
Virtual Trade Show.
December
2005,
According to a report in Arizona
Daily Star the 12th of December, 25 percent of
Arizona water suppliers still have too much arsenic
in their water to pass the new US federal standards.
The level was revised downward in 2001 from 50 parts per billion after studies showed prolonged exposure to high arsenic levels can cause bladder cancer and other cancer forms. Compliance date for the new standards was set to January 1, 2006.
There are 260 water systems across the state with arsenic levels above the new federal standard of 10 parts per billion. Now there is less than one month to go, only a handful appears to be taking steps needed to bring their water within the standard.
Any company that doesn't meet the standard could be forced to shut down under the federal rules.
Now, if it is difficult for US water systems to comply, how much more difficult is it not for water systems in Bangladesh.
November
2005,
Swedish Sustainability
Foundation decides to make arsenic mitigation a prime target
for action
August
2005,
Towards
a more effective operational response to
the Arsenic problem, new article by Aapo Sääsk
based on the new World Bank report
April 2005,
Towards
a more effective operational response to the Arsenic
problem, a
comprehensive well studied and well written report
by the World Bank on the Arsenic problem in Bangladesh.