The state has a new effort to protect low-income pregnant women and their babies from arsenic exposure using the WIC food assistance program. The program will give out water pitchers with a three-year ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mesofilter Inc., developer and manufacturer of innovative nanotechnology to filter heavy metals in water, today announced that global public health organization NSF ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Ashok Gadgil is developing a cheap and effective way to provide safe drinking water to 60 million Bangladeshis who live under the specter ...

On a visit to Bangladesh in 2011–where an estimated 20 million people are exposed to arsenic in local drinking water–scientist Liangjie Dong worked with a team to teach residents how to use a ...

Pregnant women have been advised to use water filters by experts who spoke to Newsweek after a study found levels of arsenic in water systems considered safe are impacting birth outcomes, A national ...

A community-led water-testing project made up of households that rely on private well water with high arsenic levels saw on average a 47 percent drop in participants’ urinary arsenic levels after ...

Arsenic’s potent effect on humans has been known since at least the Roman Empire. For centuries, it was a popular poison for murderers because it can’t be seen, smelled or tasted in food or water.