Assessment of the status of groundwater arsenic at singair upazila, Manikganj Bangladesh; Exploring the correlation with other metals and ions

Exposure and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 217-225

  Rahman, Md Mostafizur ^a,b   Sultana, Rebeka ^a   Shammi, Mashura ^a,d   Bikash, Joti ^a   Ahmed, Tanveer ^c   Maruo, Masahiro ^c   Kurasaki, Masaaki ^b   Uddin, M Khabir ^a  

^a JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^d XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic geochemistry; Arsenic mobilization; Chromatography; Contamination; Groundwater; Shallow tubewell

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ALKALINE EARTH METAL; AMMONIA; AQUIFER; ARSENIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MOBILIZATION; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WELL WATER;

BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH]; MANIKGANJ; SINGAIR;

EID: 85028670430     PISSN: 24519766     EISSN: 24519685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12403-016-0196-8     Document Type: Article

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