Groundwater arsenic contamination in Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plain, its health effects and an approach for mitigation

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1993-2008

  Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a   Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur ^b   Das, Bhaskar ^c   Nayak, Bishwajit ^a   Pal, Arup ^a   Sengupta, Mrinal Kumar ^a   Hossain, Md Amir ^a   Ahamed, Sad ^a   Sahu, Manabendranath ^d   Saha, Kshitish Chandra ^e   Mukherjee, Subhash Chandra ^f   Pati, Shyamapada ^f   Dutta, Rathindra Nath ^g   Quamruzzaman, Quazi ^h  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d Department of Chemistry   (India)

^e CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^f MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^g INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^h Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Adverse health effects; Arsenic and children; Groundwater arsenic contamination in GMB plain; Mitigation options; Source of arsenic; Sub clinical effects of arsenic

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; ARSENICAL SKIN LESIONS; AVAILABLE WATER; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; GROUNDWATER ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; GUIDELINE VALUES; MITIGATION OPTIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH; RIVERS; RURAL AREAS; WATER RESOURCES;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; DRINKING; GROUNDWATER; GUIDELINE; HEALTH RISK; PREGNANCY; SURFACE WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASSAM; BANGLADESH; BIHAR; INDIA; JHARKHAND; UTTAR PRADESH; WEST BENGAL;

NELUMBO NUCIFERA;

EID: 84886404276     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2699-y     Document Type: Article

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