Influences of groundwater extraction on the distribution of dissolved As in shallow aquifers of West Bengal, India

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 262, Issue , 2013, Pages 941-950

  Neidhardt, Harald ^a   Berner, Zsolt ^a   Freikowski, Dominik ^a   Biswas, Ashis ^b   Winter, Josef ^a   Chatterjee, Debashis ^c   Norra, Stefan ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bengal Delta Plain; Groundwater; Monitoring; Pumping; Spatiotemporal trends

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MONITORING; OPTICAL PUMPING;

BENGAL DELTA PLAINS; GROUND WATER MOVEMENT; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER WITHDRAWAL; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; SPATIOTEMPORAL TRENDS; WEST BENGAL , INDIA;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ARSENIC; BARIUM ION; CALCIUM ION; CHLORINE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DRINKING WATER; FERROUS ION; GROUND WATER; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE; OXYGEN 18; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; SULFATE; WELL WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; DISSOLVED MATTER; EXTRACTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; EXTRACTION; INDIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SOLID; WATER SUPPLY;

GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

ARSENIC; AS(TOT); BDP; BENGAL DELTA PLAIN; COEFFICIENT OF HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; DARPS; DISSIMILATIVE ARSENATE RESPIRING PROKARYOTES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC; FERB; GLOBAL METEORIC WATER LINE; GMWL; GROUNDWATER; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIA; K; LMWL; LOCAL METEORIC WATER LINE; M BLS; METERS BELOW LAND SURFACE; MONITORING; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PUMPING; R; SPATIOTEMPORAL TRENDS; TA; TEA; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; TOC; TOTAL ALKALINITY; TOTAL AS CONCENTRATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ARSENIC; CARBON; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; INDIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POTASSIUM; RAIN; SEASONS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84887607901     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.01.044     Document Type: Article

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