A study found that an average of 29% of Safe Water Options (SWOs) that were installed in response to the arsenic crisis over the past decade became arsenic contaminated or broke down. While already quite alarming, the study does not account for the fact that a proportion of the remaining active SWOs are in reality not community-based, but are monopolized by influential or well-connected families. AMRF was invited to discuss these matters in a guest lecture entitled “Arsenic in Bangladesh, a crisis of governance” at the Department of Geology, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Dhaka.