Simple water filter can nail arsenic

From Montreal, at a joint meeting of the American and Canadian Geophysical Unions

BED OF NAILS. Up to 96 percent of the arsenic in tainted groundwater can be removed by this filter made of iron nails. Murcott

Field tests in Nepal suggest that people who live in areas with arsenic-tainted aquifers may be able to purify their drinking water by passing it through a low-cost, low-tech filter with a simple active ingredient—a few handfuls of iron nails.