Extensive Arsenic Contamination Found in Groundwater Beneath Pakistan's Indus Plain (IMAGE)

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Extensive Arsenic Contamination Found in Groundwater Beneath Pakistan's Indus Plain

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Arsenic concentrations measured in Pakistan groundwater. Arsenic exceeds the WHO guideline of 10 micrograms/liter in large parts of the Indus plain. Nearly 1,200 samples were collected for this study between 2013 and 2015.

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Podgorski <em>et al.</em>, <i>Sci. Adv</i>. 2017;3: e1700935

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