Sustainability of arsenic mitigation interventions-an evaluation of different alternative safe drinking water options provided in Matlab, an arsenic hot spot in Bangladesh

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Hossain, Mohammed ^a,b   Rahman, Shamsun N ^b   Bhattacharya, Prosun ^a   Jacks, Gunnar ^a   Saha, Ratnajit ^b   Rahman, Marina ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NGO Forum for Public Health   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Alternative options; Arsenic; Drinking water; Mitigation; Tubewells; Users' preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 85057119300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00030     Document Type: Article

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