{"id":225308,"date":"2025-11-18T01:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/cutting-arsenic-in-drinking-water-slashed-deaths-by-50-percent"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:19:55","slug":"cutting-arsenic-in-drinking-water-slashed-deaths-by-50-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/cutting-arsenic-in-drinking-water-slashed-deaths-by-50-percent","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Arsenic in Drinking Water Slashed Deaths by 50 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQOqj0bIVKI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lowering arsenic in drinking water can slash mortality by up to 50 percent, even for people exposed for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Decades of meticulous well testing and urine monitoring show that safer wells rapidly translate into declining health risks.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term evidence linking arsenic reduction to lower mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lowering arsenic in drinking water can slash mortality by up to 50 percent, even for people exposed for decades. Decades of meticulous well testing and urine monitoring show that safer wells rapidly translate into declining health risks. Long-term evidence linking arsenic reduction to lower mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}