What is the major cause of arsenic pollution in water?
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People are exposed to elevated levels of inorganic arsenic through drinking contaminated water, using contaminated water in food preparation and irrigation of food crops, industrial processes, eating contaminated food and smoking tobacco.❤
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Arsenic is a poisonous element. It is a combination with oxygen, chlorine, hydrogen, Mercury, gold and iron. The water that we drink can contaminate with arsenic products that is very serious effect on human body. By consumption of arsenic it causes skin spots, hard nodules, leading later to gangrene and cancer. It also causes many complications in human like blindness, liver, heart problems, diabetes, and goitre. Arsenic contamination of groundwater is now a major problem in Bangladesh and West Bengal. When the rate of groundwater extraction is very high the water level goes below the diposits and arsenic is released. When the aquifer gets recharged, the arsenic contaminates the water
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