Implications of fecal bacteria input from latrine-polluted ponds for wells in sandy aquifers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1361-1370

  Knappett, Peter S K ^a,b   McKay, Larry D ^a   Layton, Alice ^a   Williams, Daniel E ^a   Alam, Md J ^c   Huq, Md R ^c   Mey, Jacob ^d   Feighery, John E ^e   Culligan, Patricia J ^e   Mailloux, Brian J ^f   Zhuang, Jie ^a   Escamilla, Veronica ^g,h   Emch, Michael ^g,h   Perfect, Edmund ^a   Sayler, Gary S ^a   Ahmed, Kazi M ^c   Van Geen, Alexander ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

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

^f Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; DRY SEASONS; E. COLI; FECAL BACTERIA; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; MONITORING WELLS; RAIN STORMS; REMOVAL RATE; SANDY AQUIFERS; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; SILTY SANDS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BACTERIA; CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; SAND; WELLS;

LAKES;

GROUND WATER; RAIN;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; DOMESTIC WASTE; EFFLUENT; FECES; GRAIN SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POND; RAINSTORM; SAND; WELL WATER;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDALES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; LATRINE; MONSOON; NONHUMAN; POND; SAND; SANITATION; SEASON; SIMULATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEWAGE; TOILET FACILITIES; WATER SUPPLY; WATER WELLS;

BANGLADESH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES;

EID: 84863057527     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202773w     Document Type: Article

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