THE crisis caused by arsenic-polluted drinking water in eastern India and Bangladesh is going from bad to worse.
Of the 2000 arsenic removal plants installed in villages in the Indian state of West Bengal to clean up water supplies, four out of five are either abandoned or deliver smelly and discoloured water, according to a new survey by a team led by Dipankar Chakraborti of Jadavpur University in Calcutta, the man who first uncovered the epidemic.
An estimated 30 million people in the Ganges delta are drinking well water contaminated with naturally occurring arsenic. India has so far spent $3…
