Arsenic in water a risk to 140 million people
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Naturally-occurring arsenic in drinking water poses a growing global health risk as large numbers of people unknowingly consume unsafe levels of the chemical element, researchers said on Wednesday.
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By Celia Hall, Medical Editor and Roger Highfield, Science Editor. Disease could kill as many along south Asia&#39;s stricken coasts as have been killed in the disaster unless clean water and medical help reaches
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Drought, pollution, mismanagement and politics have made water a precious commodity in much of the world.
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Last year, 27 cases of the disease were linked to the baths, and three people died as a result. Dr Susanne Surman-Lee, who led a study for the Health Protection Agency, said that out of 88 spa pools examined
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FORCES in north-western Spain are struggling to contain a toxic chemical spill into the Umia River heading to the Atlantic Ocean.  (c) 2006 Daily Mirror. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Thai researchers have urged people in Southeast Asia to stop eating raw freshwater fish because they risk becoming infected with a parasitic worm that may predispose them to developing liver cancer.
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Chronic exposure to arsenic, which can be measured in toenail clippings, seems to be associated with an elevated risk of melanoma skin cancer, investigators report.
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As many as 160,000 Arizona homes and businesses could have been exposed to contaminated drinking water over the past eight years because overworked water-quality enforcers were unable to investigate violations fast enough, a state audit reported Thursday.
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No one poisoned from arsenide pollution incident in C. China county    YUEYANG, Hunan Province, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- No one has been reported to get poisoned at Yueyang County in central China's Hunan Province, where the source of drinking water was found polluted with arsenide Friday.
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TUESDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Decades after residents of a region in northern Chile were exposed to high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, they still suffer from high lung and bladder cancer death rates, concludes a study by U.S. and Chilean researchers.
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BEIJING: China faces water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters (1,400 billion cubic feet) every year with severe water pollution posing a threat to the health of millions of people, state media reported.
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Underground water reserves in around 9 out of every 10 Chinese cities are polluted or over-exploited, and could take hundreds of years to recover, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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Lead, mercury and arsenic have been found in herbal preparations imported from India, some so laden with contaminants they were potent enough to cause serious poisonings, researchers report today.
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Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
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By Wang Ying  Large-scale algae outbreaks are once again posing a threat to the drinking water supplies from Taihu and Chaohu lakes.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations warned  on Wednesday Asia's tsunami death toll could double to about  300,000 unless survivors received clean water and other basic  services by the end of the week to prevent disease.
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The untreated urban sewage and effluents that flow into the Great Lakes each year are threatening a critical ecosystem that supplies water to millions of people, according to a study by a Canadian environmental group.