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Arsenic: when will the clean water start flowing?
Many new technologies have promised to remove arsenic from drinking water but little has changed on the ground, finds T. V. Padma.
FEATURE | 24 November 2009 | EN
Floating toilets may cut river illnesses
Persuading Cambodian river-dwellers to use a newly designed floating toilet instead of the river could cut soaring diarrhoea rates.
FEATURE | 14 July 2009 | EN
Pollution control key to beating China's algal blooms
Controlling the amount of pollution that goes into China's Taihu Lake is the key to managing the algal blooms, writes Lucie Guo.
Tainted water: South Asia's poisonous problem
The slow response of South Asia to the crisis triggered by arsenic-laced water has cost thousands of lives, reports Yudhijit Bhattacherjee.
The rise of medical geology
Chandra Dissanayake describes how a novel branch of geology could have important consequences for human health around the world.
FEATURE | 5 August 2005 | EN
Safer stoves can prevent arsenic poisoning in China
Rong Jiaojiao reports on efforts to eradicate arsenic poisoning in a Chinese province where the toxin is present in coal used for heating and cooking.
FEATURE | 16 March 2005 | EN
Finding a filter for arsenic-tainted water
Mark Clayton reports on technologies being developed to solve the problem of arsenic-contaminated drinking water.
FEATURE | 18 February 2005 | EN
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