Arsenic migration to deep groundwater in Bangladesh influenced by adsorption and water demand

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 793-798

  Radloff, K A ^a,b,g   Zheng, Y ^b,c   Michael, H A ^d   Stute, M ^b,e   Bostick, B C ^b   Mihajlov, I ^b   Bounds, M ^e   Huq, M R ^f   Choudhury, I ^f   Rahman, M W ^c   Schlosser, P ^a,b   Ahmed, K M ^f   Van Geen, A ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^g GRADIENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP WATER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUMPING; RISK FACTOR; VULNERABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER USE;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 80455129567     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1283     Document Type: Article

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