Arsenic risk found in wells in Nevada, California, Utah
Tens of thousands of private well owners across parts of Nevada, California and Utah might be drinking water that contains unhealthy levels of arsenic, according to a new study from Desert Research Institute. The study, led by researchers at the institute and the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and published this month in “Environmental Science and Technology,” used data from a previous Desert Research Institute analysis of water from domestic wells in Nevada to build a model to predict which areas have elevated levels of arsenic. The new model showed that more than 49,000 well users across the region are at risk of being exposed to levels of arsenic in their water that could lead to significant long-term health problems.