Arsenic in groundwater in seven districts of West Bengal, India - The biggest arsenic calamity in the world

Current Science

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 976-986

  Mandal, Badal K ^a   Chowdhury, Tarit Roy ^a   Samanta, Gautam ^a   Basu, Gautam K ^a   Chowdhury, Partha P ^a   Chanda, Chitta R ^a   Lodh, Dilip ^a   Karan, Nirmal K ^a   Dhar, Ratan K ^a   Tamili, Dipak K ^a   Das, Dipankar ^a   Saha, K C ^a,b   Chakraborti, D ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

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