Rural Latin America—a forgotten part of the global groundwater arsenic problem?

Groundwater for Sustainable Development: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 311-321

  Bundschuh, J ^a,b   Garcia, M E ^c  

^a Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO COSTARRICENSE DE ELECTRICIDAD   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

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