Ethics@noon: Scott Fendorf (Environmental Earth System Science / Woods Institute for the Environment) "Pathogens and Poisons: A Water Crisis Impacting a Billion People"
Date
Fri May 1st 2009, 12:00pm
Event Sponsor
The Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
Location
Bldg 100, Rm 101K (Note the change of location of this week's talk.)
Every day more than 140 million people in southern Asia drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Thousands of people in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam die of cancer each year from chronic exposure to arsenic, according to the World Health Organization. Some health experts call it the biggest mass poisoning in history. How does arsenic go from being in the sediment loads, in solids, into the drinking water? (Wally Falcon was previously scheduled for this day but had to cancel. We hope to re-schedule him for next Fall.)
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joanberry [at] stanford.edu
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