Srimanti Duttagupta

TL;DR: This study provides a detailed, quantitative assessment of high groundwater As across India, with delineation of possible intrinsic influences and exogenous forcings and the predictive model is helpful in predicting As-hazard zones in the areas with limited measurements.

TL;DR: While herbicides were found to be more common in agricultural areas, insecticides and PAHs dominate in urban areas, suggesting land-use to be an important controlling factor.

TL;DR: The emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) are known to pose a severe risk to human health to these contaminated water ingesting communities as discussed by the authors , which can get introduced in the community drinking water sources via numerous point and nonpoint sources such as agricultural runoff, artificial recharge, or effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs).

TL;DR: It is quantified that over the years, groundwater fecal coliform concentration and acute diarrheal cases have significantly reduced, potentially influenced by sanitation development (1990–2017, 2.63 ± 0.01%/year) and poor education level and improper human practices can strongly influence on water-borne diseases loads and thus health in parts of India.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the groundwater vulnerability to pesticide pollution due to anthropogenic activities across the Western Bengal basin and found that the agricultural prone region of the study area is highly susceptible to pesticides pollution, while the basin is more vulnerable to insecticides such as malathion than that of herbicides.