Ensuring arsenic-safe water supply in local communities: Emergent concerns in West Bengal, India

Groundwater for Sustainable Development: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 357-364

  Singh, N ^a   Jacks, G ^a   Bhattacharya, P ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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