What happens if people drink water with too much arsenic?
Impact Of Chronic Arsenic Toxicity on Human Health- A Review
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Practical Takeaways
If you live in or travel to high-risk areas like Bangladesh or parts of India, test your drinking water for arsenic or use certified filtration systems.
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Practical Takeaways
If you live in or travel to high-risk areas like Bangladesh or parts of India, test your drinking water for arsenic or use certified filtration systems.
Publication
Journal
Journal of Survey in Fisheries Sciences
Year
2023
Authors
Rupesh Dutta Banik, Uparna Dutta, Sneha Sahani, Shreya Saha, Subhankar Paul, S. Baksi, Pritha Pal
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Drinking water with too much arsenic over a long time can damage your DNA and cause harmful genetic changes in your body.
Drinking water with too much arsenic over a long time is linked to higher chances of getting certain cancers, like skin, bladder, and lung cancer.
If people drink water with too much arsenic in it over a long time, it could lead to serious health problems like heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and rare conditions like Blackfoot disease.
About 137 million people in 70 countries are drinking water that has unsafe levels of arsenic in it.
Parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal in India have really bad arsenic pollution in their drinking water, and about 26 million people in West Bengal alone are drinking water that's more contaminated than what's considered safe by global health experts.