Arsenic-Poisoned Water Threatens Vietnamese in ‘Alarming’ Study
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Arsenic and other toxic chemicals contaminate drinking water in Vietnam’s Red River Delta including the capital Hanoi, posing a serious health threat to about 7 million people, a study found.
About 65 percent of the region’s wells, the main source of drinking water, contain unsafe levels of arsenic, manganese, selenium and barium, according to the study, published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.