ABSTRACT
Pakistan is among the 4th most affected countries in the globe with regards to Arsenic pollution. Although the extent of arsenic groundwater pollution is not much but there are places which contain one of the highest levls of arsenic contamination in the region (3.7mg/L). Kudpur village in district Lahore, Punjab Pakistan is one of these areas. Most of the population affected by arsenic groundwater pollution in the Province are the low-income rural communities, who neither have the resources to afford sophisticated technologies for water treatment nor the wisdom to do so. Therefore, a low cost easy to maintain and sustainable solution for removal od arsenic in groundwater was desperately needed. This paper presents one such solution. A low cost, solution with minimum operational requirements is introduced to the arsenic groundwater affected community of Kudpur. The paper presents the process of development as well as introduction of the treatment system in the arsenic affected area of Kudpur.
