Amending irrigation channels with jute-mesh structures to decrease arsenic loading to rice fields in Bangladesh

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 101-106

  Polizzotto, Matthew L ^a   Birgand, François ^b   Badruzzaman, A Borhan M ^c   Ali, M Ashraf ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bangladesh; Channels; Irrigation; Mitigation; Rice

Indexed keywords

IRRIGATION;

BANGLADESH; CHANNELS; IRRIGATION CHANNELS; MESH STRUCTURES; MITIGATION; RICE; RICE FIELDS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP YIELD; DICOTYLEDON; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; IRON; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PADDY FIELD; PHOSPHORUS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

BANGLADESH;

CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS;

EID: 84908546299     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.10.030     Document Type: Article

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