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Michael Berg
Researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Publications - 191
Citations - 12419
Michael Berg is an academic researcher from Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Groundwater & Aquifer. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 167 publications receiving 10151 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Berg include École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & ETH Zurich.
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Arsenic contamination of groundwater and drinking water in Vietnam: a human health threat.
Michael Berg,Hong Con Tran,Thi Chuyen Nguyen,Hung Viet Pham,Roland Schertenleib,Walter Giger +5 more
TL;DR: The high arsenic concentrations found in the tubewells indicate that several million people consuming untreated groundwater might be at a considerable risk of chronic arsenic poisoning.
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Groundwater Arsenic Contamination Throughout China
Luis Rodríguez-Lado,Guifan Sun,Michael Berg,Qiang Zhang,Hanbin Xue,Quanmei Zheng,C. Annette Johnson +6 more
TL;DR: A statistical risk model is developed that classifies safe and unsafe areas with respect to geogenic arsenic contamination in China, using the threshold of 10 micrograms per liter, the World Health Organization guideline and current Chinese standard for drinking water.
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Global threat of arsenic in groundwater
TL;DR: A global model for predicting groundwater arsenic levels suggests that 94 million to 220 million people are potentially exposed to high arsenic concentrations in groundwater, the vast majority of which are in Asia.
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Magnitude of arsenic pollution in the Mekong and Red River Deltas--Cambodia and Vietnam.
Michael Berg,Caroline Stengel,Pham Thi Kim Trang,Pham Hung Viet,Mickey L. Sampson,Moniphea Leng,Sopheap Samreth,David Fredericks +7 more
TL;DR: The sediments of 12-40 m deep cores from the Red River delta contain arsenic levels of 2-33 microg/g and show a remarkable correlation with sediment-bound iron and in all three areas, the groundwater arsenic pollution seem to be of natural origin and caused by reductive dissolution of arsenic-bearing iron phases buried in aquifers.
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Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of organic contaminants in natural environments: a critical review of the state of the art, prospects, and future challenges
Torsten C. Schmidt,Luc Zwank,Martin Elsner,Michael Berg,Rainer U. Meckenstock,Stefan B. Haderlein +5 more
TL;DR: An alternative scheme to evaluate isotope data is outlined that would enable estimates of position-specific kinetic isotope effects and, thus, allow one to extract mechanistic chemical and biochemical information.