Status of groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh: A 14-year study report

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5789-5802

  Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a   Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur ^a,b   Das, Bhaskar ^a   Murrill, Matthew ^a   Dey, Sankar ^a   Chandra Mukherjee, Subhas ^c   Dhar, Ratan Kumar ^a   Biswas, Bhajan Kumar ^a   Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar ^a   Roy, Shibtosh ^d   Sorif, Shahariar ^d   Selim, Mohammad ^d   Rahman, Mahmuder ^d   Quamruzzaman, Quazi ^d  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^d Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Approach for mitigation; Arsenic; Bangladesh; Deep tubewells; Geomorphological regions; Groundwater; Hand tubewell; Number of hand tubewells; Population at risk

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARSENIC; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTAMINATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; POTABLE WATER; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER RESOURCES;

APPROACH FOR MITIGATION; BANGLADESH; CONCENTRATION PREDICTING; FLOW INJECTION HYDRIDE GENERATION ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL REGIONS; GROUNDWATER ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; TUBEWELLS;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; IRON; WELL WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; EDUCATION; FLOODPLAIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; LESION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MITIGATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POISONING; POLLUTION MONITORING; SKIN DISORDER; STANDARD (REGULATION); TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BANGLADESH; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

BANGLADESH; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 78649346667     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.06.051     Document Type: Article

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