The Rotary Foundation and International bodies to promote action for arsenic safe water in the region. Rotarians recommend to the respective district conferences to adopt arsenic safe water as aprogramme of emphasis and adopt the Calcutta Commitment. To work closely with Govt. It is reasonable to suppose that many more people are at risk. The Public Health Engineering department recognised only in March this year that a problem exists in Calcutta, seven years after Jadavpur University's School of Environmental Studies blew the whistle on arsenic in the city's wells, and quite a few years after arsenicosis patients started showing up among its residents.
Public awareness can be an important means of combating the menace.
This will require money and organisation, but most of all, imagination and shaking off lethargy.