Environmental health risks by arsenic consumption in water wells in the Cape region, Mexico

Environmental Health Risk

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 131-138

  Romero Schmidt, H ^a   Naranjo Pulido, A ^a   Mendez Rodriguez L ^a   Acosta Vargas, B ^a   Ortega Rubio, A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; DISEASE CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH CARE; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); WATER SUPPLY; WATER WELLS;

BIOSPHERE; FLORA SPECIES; MINERAL MINING ACTIVITY; MINING WASTES;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 3543150718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2495/ehr010131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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