Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health effects in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plain

Groundwater for Sustainable Development: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 257-269

  Das, B ^a   Nayak, B ^a   Pal, A ^a   Ahamed, S ^a   Hossain, M A ^a   Sengupta, M K ^a   Rahman, M M ^a   Maity, S ^a   Saha, K C ^a   Chakraborti, D ^a   Mukherjee, S C ^b   Mukherjee, A ^b   Pati, S ^c   Dutta, R N ^c   Quamruzzaman, Q ^d  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

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