Word: dipankar
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...consequences range from skin discoloration to cancer--and death. The source of the poison? Apparently chemical changes in the bedrock caused arsenic, a naturally occurring element, to dissolve into the groundwater. The central government recently stepped in with $31 million for research and new, deeper wells. Last week Dipankar Chakraborty, an environmental scientist at Jadavpur University, held a seminar to publicize the mass contamination. Said a worried suburbanite: ``What we really need is not seminars but urgent action to arrest the menace...
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