A review of arsenic and its impacts in groundwater of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, Bangladesh

Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1032-1046

  Edmunds, W M ^a   Ahmed, K M ^b   Whitehead, P G ^a  

^a Environmental Change Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; SEA WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; AQUIFER; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FOOD CHAIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SKIN CANCER; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84931075527     PISSN: 20507887     EISSN: 20507895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4em00673a     Document Type: Article

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