Pollution Engineering - October 2008 - (Page 25) Water By DAVID STEVENSON, Water For People Photos by JOHN KAYSER for People Arsenic mi mitigation in West Bengal, India, means much more mitigation ely e than mere treating water. merely I n rural West Bengal, India, life is tenuous for millions of people. Desperate poverty, hunger and disease are a daily reality. To make matters worse, their drinking water is killing them. With every drink of water and every meal they eat, hundreds of thousands of people are being slowly poisoned by the very water they need to survive. Residents in eight of this region’s 19 districts are drinking and cooking with groundwater contaminated with naturally occurring, highly toxic arsenic. Tasteless and colorless in solution, the arsenic has slowly seeped into their water sources and then into their bodies. The result: chronic arsenic poisoning of hundreds of thousands of West Bengalis, with many more at risk. Thankfully, village-by-village, simple, locally developed solutions are making a change for the better. These solutions are providing more than safe water; they are empowering communities and contributing to local economies by creating new business and job opportunities. Where did the arsenic come from? Arsenic is a naturally occurring, semi-metallic compound found in groundwater around the world – including flows beneath Bangladesh, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, parts of the United States and India. Some argue that the increasing occurrence of arsenic in groundwater might be the result of the rapid and significant drawdown of aquifers as growing communities struggle to meet quickly rising water demands. While arsenic may be tasteless and odorless, the impact to human health is deadly evident. Early indications appear in the Professor Anirban Gupta, Ph.D., an assistant professor with Bengal Engineering & Science University, was involved with the development of the arsenic filtration technology that is being employed throughout the region. Water For People partnered with the university to develop the technology and support its ongoing implementation. OCTOBER2008 www.pollutionengineering.com 25 http://www.pollutionengineering.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Pollution Engineering - October 2008 Pollution Engineering - October 2008 Contents The Editor’s Desk EnviroNews PE Events Legal Lookout Green Connections Clearing the Air Water for People There’s a New Show in Town Catching Wind for Clean Water Taking the Pressure off Blower Selection Pulsed Plasma Positive Redundancy Product Focus: Municipal Water Treatment Product Focus: Monitoring Equipment PE Products Classified Marketplace Advertisers Index State Rules Pollution Engineering - October 2008 Pollution Engineering - October 2008 - Pollution Engineering - October 2008 (Page Cover1) Pollution Engineering - October 2008 - Pollution Engineering - October 2008 (Page Cover2) Pollution Engineering - October 2008 - Pollution Engineering - October 2008 (Page 3) Pollution Engineering - October 2008 - Contents (Page 4) Pollution Engineering - October 2008 - Contents (Page 5) Pollution Engineering - October 2008 - Contents (Page 6) Pollution Engineering - 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