There’s a band of bedrock in Eastern New England that makes the region one of about a dozen hotspots in the country for arsenic in drinking wells.
A U.S. Geological Survey study estimates nearly 50,000 people in Southeastern New Hampshire could be drinking elevated levels of arsenic.
And while it can sound terrifying that there are trace amounts of such an iconic poison in some people’s water, it can be fixed.
NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown reports on efforts to get the word out about the contaminant. And in a second story he looks at where solutions to the problem may come from.