Arsenic contamination in groundwaters in Bangladesh and options of sustainable drinking water supplies

The Global Arsenic Problem: Challenges for Safe Water Production

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 21-36

  Bhattacharya, Prosun ^a   Bundschuh, Jochen ^a,b   von Brömssen, Mattias ^c   Hossain, Mohammad ^d   Ahmed, Kazi Matin ^e   Hoinkis, Jan ^b   Litter, Marta ^f  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Ramboll Sweden AB   (Sweden)

^d WAGNER COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

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DOI: 10.1201/b10537     Document Type: Chapter

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