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There have been studies over the past few decades showing an increasing idea that the presence of too much arsenic in drinking water could be linked to type 2 diabetes. 

According to government studies, the amount of arsenic that is acceptable and not harmful to the individuals that drink it is 10 micrograms per liter or less.  At least 13 million people drink water with much more arsenic in it than that amount. 

To make matters worse, there are new studies that have determined that even very low levels of arsenic – much lower than 10 micrograms per liter – have a strong link to diabetes.  The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland studied nearly 800 adults including testing their urine for levels of arsenic.  The original study was conducted in 2003 and 2004.  The study showed that 7.7 percent of the participants who had diabetes had a 26% higher incidence of arsenic in their urine samples.

In addition, 20% of the participants who had a higher percentage of arsenic in their urine had a 3.6 times higher risk of diabetes than the 20% with the lowest levels of arsenic.  Since arsenic has no odor, color or taste, it is easy to drink water with high – or low – levels of it without ever knowing.

It has been determined that even low levels of arsenic can have an effect on genetics.  Some of these factors interfere with sensitivity to insulin and could also create other issues such as cell damage due to complications involving oxygen, as well as inflammation and cell death.  These factors are also factors in diabetes.

This study is just the tip of the iceberg.  Now that it has been discovered that even low levels of arsenic in water are this invasive and this harmful, it is necessary to re-think prior research and look at the issue more closely to keep more people from getting diabetes from simply quenching their thirst.