Many people in Bangladesh continue to drink arsenic contaminated water (Source: USGS)From ABC News (Australia)/AFP/Reuters:
Researchers have finally worked out what led to the widespread release of arsenic into drinking water in rural Bangladesh, affecting millions of people.
Dubbed 'the worst mass poisoning in history', the incident has puzzled scientists for decades.
Now a team publishing in Nature Geoscience say that tens of thousands of man-made ponds are to blame.
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