If you live in Iowa you’re drinking water may contain arsenic. Iowa drinking water is polluted with arsenic. The element occurs in Iowa’s soil naturally. Health officials are encouraging private well owners to test their water. Public water supplies test for arsenic regularly.
“All of them (public water systems) have arsenic problems,” said Diane Moles of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources water-supply staff. “They need to either put in treatment or be able to blend them down” by mixing in clean water from other uncontaminated sources.
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Coincidentally, crime novelist Lindsay Ashford has come up with a new explanation for author Jane Austen’s death: arsenic poisoning at age 41.
Austen, the English author of such classic novels as “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility,” died in 1817 at age 41.
While reading Austen’s correspondence, Ashford came across a line the novelist wrote just a few months before she died: “I am considerably better now and am recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough, black and white and every wrong colour.”
Familiar with poisons from researching her crime novels, Ashford recognized that Austen’s symptoms could be attributed to arsenic poisoning, which can turn patches of skin brown or black while other areas go white.
Ashford then met with the former president of the Jane Austen Society of North America, who told her that the lock of Austen’s hair bought at auction in 1948 had tested positive for arsenic.
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