Management of arsenic contaminated groundwater in the Bengal Delta Plain

Conflict Management of Water Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 308-348

  Bhattacharya, Prosun ^a   Mukherjee, Arun B ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315186733     Document Type: Chapter

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