Assessment of arsenic exposure from groundwater and rice in Bengal Delta Region, West Bengal, India

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5803-5812

  Chatterjee, Debashis ^a   Halder, Dipti ^a,b   Majumder, Santanu ^a   Biswas, Ashis ^a,b   Nath, Bibhash ^c   Bhattacharya, Prosun ^b   Bhowmick, Subhamoy ^a   Mukherjee Goswami, Aishwarya ^a   Saha, Debasree ^a   Hazra, Rasmani ^a   Maity, Palash B ^d   Chatterjee, Debankur ^e   Mukherjee, Abhijit ^f   Bundschuh, Jochen ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d State Forensic Science Laboratory   (India)

^e PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f ALBERTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Canada)

^g KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arsenic exposure; Fe Cycling; Hydrochemistry; Redox chemistry; Rice; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVEYS; WATER QUALITY;

ARSENIC EXPOSURE; AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; REDOX CHEMISTRY; RICE; WEST BENGAL , INDIA;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

ARSENIC; CALCIUM; FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; GROUND WATER; MAGNESIUM; SODIUM; WELL WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH IMPACT; HYDROCHEMISTRY; PH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REDOX CONDITIONS; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE FILTER; PH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

GANGES DELTA; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 78649463145     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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