Calcutta's industrial pollution: Groundwater arsenic contamination in a residential area and sufferings of people due to industrial effluent discharge - An eight-year study report

Current Science

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 346-355

  Chakraborti, D ^a   Samanta, G ^a   Mandal, B K ^a   Chowdhury, T Roy ^a   Chanda, C R ^a   Biswas, B K ^a   Dhar, R K ^a   Basu, G K ^a   Saha, K C ^a,b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

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