About 140 million people, mainly in developing countries, are being poisoned by arsenic in their drinking water, researchers believe.
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The first signs that arsenic-contaminated water might be a major health issue emerged in the 1980s, with the documentation of poisoned communities in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Since then, large-scale contamination has been found in other Asian countries such as China, Cambodia and Vietnam, in South America and Africa.
Great. And we're importing rice from China and Vietnam. I fondly remember the days when we were actually exporting rice. And other countries would send their best agriculture students to study here to improve their rice production. Now we're exporting people.
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you remember the days when we exported rice? you probably hauled the bags up the docks to the ships yourself! wow. that must've been like 10 presidents ago. what-?! i'm just saying!
I remember it because I wasnt too busy dancing to Tarzan Boy in front of my fellow students.
oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohwho-oowoo-ohh.
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