Arsenic
Arsenic is considered in the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality (GDWQ).
For individual chemicals, the GDWQ also consider:
Previous editions of the background document
Chemical hazards in drinking water
Other publications of interest
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In 1993, in Bangladesh, drinking-water samples from tubewells were found to contain high levels of arsenic. The primary purpose of this paper is to...
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