Contamination status of arsenic and other trace elements in drinking water and residents from Tarkwa, a historic mining township in Ghana

Chemosphere

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1513-1522

  Asante, Kwadwo Ansong ^a,b   Agusa, Tetsuro ^a   Subramanian, Annamalai ^a   Ansa Asare, Osmund D ^b   Biney, Charles A ^b   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Ghana; Human urine; Manganese; Trace elements; Water

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CONTAMINATION; HEALTH HAZARDS; MANGANESE; POTABLE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

HUMAN URINE; WATER GUIDELINES;

WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; MANGANESE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARSENIC; CONTAMINATION; HEALTH HAZARDS; MANGANESE; POTABLE WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH RISK; MANGANESE; MINING; RESIDENT POPULATION; URINE; WATER POLLUTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; GHANA; HUMAN; MINING; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TARKWA; WEST AFRICA; WESTERN REGION;

EID: 33845467097     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.08.022     Document Type: Article

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