Collection of depth-specific groundwater samples from an arsenic contaminated aquifer in West Bengal, India

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 870-881

  Guha, Saumyen ^a   Raymahashay, B C ^a   Banerjee, Amlan ^a,d   Acharyya, S K ^b   Gupta, Anirban ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; BACTERIA; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARSENIC MOBILIZATION; FERRIC OXY-HYDROXIDES; MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSES; PACKER-STRADDLE PUMP ASSEMBLY;

GROUNDWATER;

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER; IRON; NITRATE; SULFATE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; INDIA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 27544457016     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2005.22.870     Document Type: Article

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