ABSTRACT
Rationale for developing global resilience towards the arsenic risk mitigation involves the mitigation or elimination of ongoing vulnerabilities, including exposure to constant environmental stresses that damage the well-being and health of the population. The occurrence of geogenic arsenic (As) in groundwater is a severe challenge for global drinking water quality with extreme severity in several countries in the global south especially South Asia, Africa and Latin America. Drinking water practice has changed from surface water to groundwater and millions of groundwater-based drinking water access points have been installed during last three decades. Unfortunately, the discovery of As and its widespread occurrence in shallow aquifers drastically reduced the safe water access and huge population is now exposed to high levels of As from drinking water sources. This imposes the need for building resilience for drinking water safety in arsenic prone rural communities in the global south based on the best practices that can be scaled up for developing the resilience capacities for drinking water safety for such communities.
