Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Nepal-An overview

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Thakur, Jay Krishna ^a,b   Thakur, Rinku Kumari ^b   Ramanathan, A L ^c   Kumar, Manish ^d   Singh, Sudhir Kumar ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Barhari Bazar   (Nepal)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenic contamination in groundwater of Nepal; Drinking water; Groundwater resources management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ARSENIC; CONTAMINATION; ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; POTABLE WATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 84862164968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w3010001     Document Type: Review

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