Well water poisoned with arsenic can cause lesions on the skin Water quality in Landry Parish, Louisiana has been getting worse for years. Residents are being poisoned by rising levels of arsenic in their well water, but Republican legislative efforts to kill clean water programs in Congress are likely to eliminate the funds needed to clean it up. While no specific source for the arsenic contamination has been found, natural gas drilling in the area is a likely culprit. High levels of arsenic in groundwater all around the nation have been attributed to a method of natural gas extraction known as fracking which was reported on in an earlier entry... read more >>