Drinking water with high levels of arsenic, high salinity, various metals and fecal contamination from the colonists' latrines is a possible contributing cause of the deaths at Jamestown Island during the Starving Time of 1609 and 1610. (Date of Image: 2011)
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Testing Colonists' Water at Historic Jamestowne
Labels:
clean water,
college of william and mary,
nsf
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