Dangerous waters: challenges of arsenic and salinization in Bangladesh
What happens when water you thought was ‘safe’ turns bad? In Bangladesh millions of wells are polluted with naturally occurring arsenic: you cannot smell or taste it but it has a devastating impact on health. In coastal areas, traditional ponds have become contaminated with salt water, especially following cyclone Aila. This film looks at how …Read more »
ARSENIC REMOVAL FROM WATER – WINNER 2010 Bhaskar Sen Gupta – EIGHT PEOPLE WHO ARE CHANGING THE WORLD
EIGHT PEOPLE WHO ARE CHANGING THE WORLD – ARSENIC REMOVAL FROM WATER – PRIZE WINNER 2010 Guest Speaker -Bhaskar Sen Gupta As part of a free programme of public events to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The St Andrews Prize for the Environment, eight former winners gathered on Tuesday 29 April 2014 to present their …Read more »
Nutrition & Food Safety Expert Julie Jones on Arsenic in Food & Beverages
On Nov. 18, 2014, Consumer Reports released an analysis of levels of naturally occurring arsenic found in rice and several other grains, leading the magazine to recommend curtailing people’s intake of rice and rice products. However, the study follows a far more comprehensive analysis by the FDA, with levels of very low risk, which led …Read more »
Biological Removal of Arsenic and Nitrate from Drinking Water Sources.m4v
University of Michigan Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) Program Biological Removal of Arsenic and Nitrate from Drinking Water Sources Presentation by: Andrea Trese