Arsenic in the Drinking Water of the City of Antofagasta : Epidemiological and Clinical Study before and after the Installation of a Treatment Plant

By Vicent, Patricia

Book Id: WPLBN0000012842
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Arsenic in the Drinking Water of the City of Antofagasta : Epidemiological and Clinical Study before and after the Installation of a Treatment Plant
Author:	Vicent, Patricia
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


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Government Reference Publication

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Introduction: Antofagasta, a city of 130,000 inhabitants, received a water supply containing high quantities of arsenic (0.8 ppm) between 1958 and 1970. The source of the high arsenic content water was the Toconce River, whose waters come from the Andes Mountains at an altitude of 3000 ms and are brought over 300 km to Antofagasta. At the beginning of the 1960s the first dermatological manifestations were noted, especially in children (Table 1). Several systemic cases attributed to arsenicism (bronchiectasis, Raynauds syndrome and other peripheral vascular phenomena, ischemia and myocardial infarction, mesentheric thrombosis), including a few fatal ones were sent to Santiagos hospitals.