Posted on 08/30/2007 3:14:33 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
If you have cattle in the area, it’s always a good idea to get a yearly test for bacteria in your well water. Maybe a more intense analysis every other year for other unhealthy items.
Carolyn
0.045% of the worlds population.
That is about the same as that one kid in highschool with the kooky eyes = lets make everyone wear glasses = government solves the problem again. /sarc
It states in the article that, at least in the case of Bangladesh and West Bengal, the arsenic did not appear until aid agencies drilled wells.
I have previously read that in Bangladesh aid agencies were proud to have designed a new type of shallow well that was very easily constructed. This greatly reduced illness caused by drinking contaminated surface water and the wells were drilled everywhere. But it turned out that under the entire country was a soil layer containing arsenic and this poisoned all the wells.
It's a timebomb because even low levels of arsenic gradually accumulate in the body. The other article I was reading showed a man in Bangladesh with one of the common symptoms of long-term arsenic consumption, blisters on the bottom of his feet.
That stinks. Well water is one of the primary sources of potable water in poor countries. River water is iffy because everyone uses it to dump trash. It turns out that everyone will have to used municipal water in order to stay healthy. The problem is that many of these families probably either don't have access to or can't afford to use municipal water.
THIS IS HIGH-GRADE BS!
No evidence has been presented that arsenic accumulation in the human system has led to “premature death” from drinking ground water.
There are many studies showing that arsenic can accumulate in marine life and certain plants and a steady diet of these would contribute to a more concentrated dose; if this is the etiological supposition, then it would be better to approach such a problem using an educational approach on dietary habits and the importance of a varied diet.
This guy won a $1 million prize this year for his solution to the arsenic drinking water problem.
I just called may reverse osmosis water supplier, and they tell me that reverse osmosis does remove arsenic. [They take city water and then do reverse osmosis on it.]
I’m no authority, but I think you would want to have it tested regularly—and not just for arsenic.
Much appreciated. We have it on city water, too.
But we have well water if we have to go to it.
Greatly apprecaite your time and bother to answer my questions.
Blessings,
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