https://www.scmp.com/rss/323693/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com “Certified arsenic-free”. The traveller, new to Bangladesh and taking out a bottle of drinking water with this strange label from their hotel fridge, may smile in puzzlement. “Oh well, that’s all right then.” But unless they are keen readers of specialist journals on geology and water engineering, the chances are this is their first inkling of what the World Health Organisation has described as the “largest mass poisoning of a population in history”. Dhaka, the heaving, ramshackle capital of 17... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2053250/how-bangladesh-drinking-itself-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2053250/how-bangladesh-drinking-itself-death?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Dec 2016 09:00:45 +0000