Low-cost informational intervention reduced drinking water arsenic exposure in Bangladesh.

Thirty million Bangladeshis continue to drink water with unacceptable levels of arsenic (>10 µg/L), resulting in a large public health burden. The vast majority of the Bangladeshi population relies on private wells, and less than 12% use piped water, increasing the complexity of mitigation efforts. While mass testing and informational campaigns were successful in the early 2,000 s, they have received little attention in recent years, even though the number of wells in the country has likely more than doubled. We investigated the effect of a low-cost (