Arsenic pollution in soil and groundwater of Bangladesh

Energy and the Environment - Proceedings of the International Conference on Energy and the Environment

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1626-1632

  Rahman, M Hamidur ^a   Ishiga, Hiroaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aquifer Provenance; Arsenic; Contamination; Geochemical occurrences; Groundwater; Hydrogeological settings

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; CLIMATOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH RISKS; PATIENT MONITORING; POTABLE WATER; SAND; SEDIMENTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WATERSHEDS;

AQUIFER PROVENANCE; ASIAN ARSENIC NETWORK (AAN); GEOCHEMICAL OCCURRENCES; HYDROGEOLOGICAL SETTINGS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 2642538677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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