Welcome to Better Life Laboratories’ Homepage

• About Better Life Laboratories

• Our Research on Metal-affected Drinking Water in Bangladesh, West Bengal, India, and Myingyan Township, Myanmar
  • Achievements

  • Introduction: A 7 Minute Video

  • Overview: A Slideshow with 24 Slides

  • Publications
    1. The Nature, Extent, Health Risks, and Treatment of Arsenic-affected Drinking Water in Bangladesh
       • Book Chapter in Portable Document Format (PDF)

    2. The Concentrations of Arsenic and Other Toxic Elements in Bangladesh’s Drinking Water
       • Journal Article in PDF

    3. Assessment of Exposure to Arsenic and Other Elements from Bangladesh’s Drinking Water, Rice, and Soil
       • Conference Poster in PDF

    4. The Development and Use of an Innovative Laboratory Method for Measuring Arsenic in Drinking Water from Western Bangladesh
       • Journal Article in PDF

    5. Public Health Strategies for Western Bangladesh that Address the Arsenic, Manganese, Uranium and Other Toxic Elements in Their Drinking Water
       • Journal Article in PDF

    6. Exposure to Multiple Metals from Groundwater—A Global Crisis: Geology, Climate Change, Health Effects, Testing, and Mitigation
       • Copyrighted Article Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry Available at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/mt/c1mt00052g/unauth#!divAbstract

    7. Technical Problems with Home-Scale Coagulation for Removing Arsenic and Other Toxic Elements from Western Bangladesh’s Drinking Water
       • Conference Poster in PDF

    8. Neighborhood Scale Mapping of Multi-Metal Groundwater Contamination in West Bengal, India
       • Conference Poster in PDF

       • Copyrighted Article Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry Available at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/mt/c2mt20020a#!divAbstract

    9. Multiple Inorganic Toxic Substances Contaminating the Groundwater of Myingyan Township, Myanmar: Arsenic, Manganese, Fluoride, Iron, and Uranium
       • Copyrighted Article Published by Elsevier B.V. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969715001746

• Published Reviews of World Health Organization Drinking-Water Guidelines
  1. World Health Organization Discontinues Its Drinking-Water Guideline for Manganese
     • Journal Article in PDF

  2. World Health Organization Increases Its Drinking-Water Guideline for Uranium
     • Abstract

     • Copyrighted Article Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry Available at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/em/c3em00381g#!divAbstract

  3. Urgent Need to Reevaluate the Latest World Health Organization Guidelines for Toxic Inorganic Substances in Drinking Water
     • Journal Article in PDF

• Analytical Methods
  1. Field Application of ASTM Method D 5831 at Fuel-contaminated Sites

  2. Measuring Total Arsenic in Drinking Water using Arsenomolybdate

  3. Calculating the Lowest Reportable Concentrations of Toxic Chemicals in the Environment
     • Journal Article in PDF

  4. Using Polynomial Regression to Objectively Test the Fit of Calibration Curves in Analytical Chemistry
     • Journal Article in PDF

• How to Make a Tax Deductible Contribution of Money or Equipment to Better Life Laboratories

• E-mail the President of Better Life Laboratories, Seth H. Frisbie, Ph.D. (shf3@cornell.edu).
• Write us at Better Life Laboratories, 293 George Rd., East Calais, VT 05650, USA.