Abstract
No country has been down and out with such depressing regularity as poor Bangladesh. Situated east of India on the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh supports, within a space the size of Wisconsin, about 125 million largely impoverished but resilient people. Floods, disease, and malnutrition combine to buffet the society from crisis to crisis. And now it has as yet another problem: the poisoning of potentially 70 million people from arsenic present in the water drawn from millions of wells originally installed to solve shortages of drinking water. Quite likely, nowhere near that estimated 70 million will fall ill, certainly not die of the cancer that eventually results after several years of untreated chronic arsenic poisoning. Enough help should be on the way. International assistance organizations, though deplorably late, are beginning to respond in a coordinated way. But thousands of villagers already are affected, and across the border in West Bengal, India, where cases began ...
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