Word: artesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When former Prime Ministers are selling stories about their private lives for money, I think it is as low as you can go.'' CALCUTTA: Arsenic Agony When villagers in the Indian state of West Bengal began drilling tube wells in the 1960s, they thought they would be drinking pure artesian H2O. They were mistaken. Since 1983, more than 100,000 cases of arsenic poisoning have been reported; the 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...
...effort to clean up the industry, the FDA is proposing the most sweeping new regulations in two decades. The most controversial would set uniform definitions for types of bottled waters, such as "artesian," "mineral," "distilled" and "natural spring." These terms are now generally ill defined. Some names, such as Grayson's "mountain water" and Music's "glacier water," defy definition since no such categories exist...
...businessman actually brought water back from Chicago, some 90 miles away. Schools shut off drinking fountains; the Culligan man showed up outside a local TV station to distribute distilled water; and a line formed outside the old Pryor Avenue Iron well, one of the city's few sources of artesian water...