Project Summary

Despite widespread awareness of this issue since the early 1990s, contamination of drinking water with naturally occurring arsenic still affects 17.5 to 27.5 million Bangladeshis, causing deaths and severe health consequences for thousands more each year.

The availability of a sophisticated digital sensor and real-time data-mapping and analytics enables a new approach to be trialed. In this project we will assess arsenic levels in 2000 tube wells in four of the worst affected regions in Bangladesh to reconfirm the scale of the problem and to evaluate the potential of new sustainable technology approaches.