Groundwater Arsenic Contamination and Potential Health Risk Assessment of Gangetic Plains of Jharkhand, India

Exposure and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 125-142

  Alam, Md Osaid ^a   Shaikh, Wasim Akram ^a   Chakraborty, Sukalyan ^a   Avishek, Kirti ^a   Bhattacharya, Tanushree ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Correlation; Health effects; Physicochemical parameters

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROUNDWATER; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HETEROGENEITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REDOX POTENTIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GANGES RIVER; INDIA; JHARKHAND; SAHIBGANJ;

EID: 85014428317     PISSN: 24519766     EISSN: 24519685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12403-015-0188-0     Document Type: Article

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