Public health strategies for western Bangladesh that address arsenic manganese, uranium, and other toxic elements in drinking water

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 410-416

  Frisbie, Seth H ^a,b   Mitchell, Erika J ^a   Mastera, Lawrence J ^b   Maynard, Donald M ^a   Yusuf, Ahmad Zaki ^c   Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf ^c   Ortega, Richard ^d   Dunn, Richard K ^b   Westerman, David S ^b   Bacquart, Thomas ^d   Sarkar, Bibudhendra ^e  

^a Better Life Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b NORWICH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bangladesh Association for Needy Peoples Improvement   (Bangladesh)

^d CENTRE D ETUDES NUCLÉAIRES DE BORDEAUX GRADIGNAN   (France)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bangladesh; Chronic arsenic poisoning; Drinking water; Manganese; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BORON; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; SELENIUM; URANIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SAFETY; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD; WATER TREATMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; BORON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS, HEAVY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELENIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 64049097983     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11886     Document Type: Article

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