12pc people still at arsenic risk
Twelve percent people are still at risk of arsenic contamination, Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain told the parliament yesterday.
He also discussed the steps taken by the government and the ongoing and upcoming projects to mitigate the crisis while replying to MPs' queries.
Quoting a government survey, Mosharraf said, 14.5 lakh tube wells contaminated out of 50 lakh in 271 upazilas in 2003 and there were excessive arsenic in 29 percent of tube wells.
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