4.08 Water

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4.8.20 Chemicals in Water

Arsenic

My sisters, my brothers and one of my uncles died from cancer within five years. When my father got ill, I took him to a hospital. The doctors said he had cancer, like the others. I thought bad spirits tortured my family. However a doctor saw something unusual on his skin. He said the black dots on his hands were from arsenic poisoning. I thought it was impossible, nobody poisons our family. The doctors tested our drinking water and they said it has too much arsenic in it. We die one by one from drinking water. Now we don’t use the wells which give poisoned water. We have good drinking water and my father feels better, too.