Fecal contamination of shallow tubewells in Bangladesh inversely related to arsenic

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1199-1205

  Van Geen, Alexander ^a   Ahmed, Kazi Matin ^b   Akita, Yasuyuki ^c   Alam, Md Jahangir ^b   Culligan, Patricia J ^e   Emch, Michael ^d   Escamilla, Veronica ^d   Feighery, John ^e   Ferguson, Andrew S ^e   Knappett, Peter ^f   Layton, Alice C ^f   Mailloux, Brian J ^g   McKay, Larry D ^f   Mey, Jacob L ^a   Serre, Marc L ^c   Streatfield, P Kim ^h   Wu, Jianyong ^c   Yunus, Mohammad ^h  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e University of Tennessee ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^g Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^h INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS CONTENT; BANGLADESH; BENGAL BASIN; E. COLI; E. COLI DETECTION; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATORS; HEALTH IMPLICATIONS; HEAVY RAINFALL; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; SHALLOW WELLS; SURFACE WATER BODY; TRAVEL TIME; TUBEWELLS;

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH RISKS; HYDROGEOLOGY; RAIN; SURFACE WATERS; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; WELL WATER; GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FECES; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; RAINFALL; RECHARGE; SANITATION; SHALLOW WATER; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BANGLADESH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; NONHUMAN; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STANDARDS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

BANGLADESH;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79951664596     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103192b     Document Type: Article

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