Arsenic concentrations are predicted to increase significantly in Bangladesh's drinking well water, consumed by around 97% of Bangladeshis, thanks to sea level rise from climate change

Arsenic concentrations are predicted to increase significantly in Bangladesh's drinking well water, consumed by around 97% of Bangladeshis, thanks to sea level rise from climate change

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295172

Article Title: Sea level rise from climate change is expected to increase the release of arsenic into Bangladesh’s drinking well water by reduction and by the salt effect

Author Countries: USA

Funding: The fieldwork in Bangladesh was funded by the United States Agency of International Development (USAID; contract number US AID RE III 388-0070; https://www.usaid.gov/). This fieldwork began in July of 1997 and ended in August of 1997. USAID is an international development agency that is funded by the United States government. USAID employed Seth H. Frisbie (SHF) and paid his salary during these two months in 1997. After August 1997, SHF received no specific funding for this work. Erika J. Mitchell (EJM) and Azizur R. Molla (ARM) received no specific funding for this work. No commercial companies funded the study or the authors. All other costs have been paid from the personal savings of the authors. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.