Groundwater arsenic calamity in Bangladesh

Current Science

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 48-59

  Dhar, Ratan Kr ^a   Biswas, Bhajan Kr ^a   Samanta, Gautam ^a   Mandal, Badal Kr ^a   Chakraborti, D ^a   Roy, Shibtosh ^b   Jafar, Abu ^b   Islam, Ariful ^b   Ara, Gulshan ^b   Kabir, Saiful ^b   Khan, A Wadud ^c   Ahmed, S Akther ^c   Hadi, S Abdul ^c  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

^c National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine   (Bangladesh)

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