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Screening of arsenic in tubewell water with field test kits: evaluation of the method from public health perspective.
Jakariya,Marie Vahter,Mahfuzar Rahman,M. Abdul Wahed,Samar Kumar Hore,Prosun Bhattacharya,Gunnar Jacks,Lars Åke Persson,Lars Åke Persson +8 more
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There is an urgent need for Bangladesh to identify the arsenic (As) contaminated tubewells (TWs) in order to assess the health risks and initiate appropriate mitigation measures, and field test kits offer the only practical tool within the time frame and financial resources available for screening and assessment of the As contaminated TWs as well as their monitoring than that of the laboratory measurement.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2007-07-01. It has received 98 citations till now.read more
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Arsenic in the environment: Biology and Chemistry
Prosun Bhattacharya,Alan H. Welch,Kenneth G. Stollenwerk,Mike J. McLaughlin,Jochen Bundschuh,G. Panaullah +5 more
TL;DR: A synthesis of the As issues in the light of long-standing research and with regards to the new findings presented at this conference is presented, providing a backdrop to the issues raised at the conference together with an overview of contemporary and historical issues of As contamination and health impacts.
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Arsenic and fluoride contaminated groundwaters: A review of current technologies for contaminants removal.
Sachin V. Jadhav,Eugenio Bringas,Ganapati D. Yadav,Virendra K. Rathod,Inmaculada Ortiz,Kumudini V. Marathe +5 more
TL;DR: This review critically analyzes this important issue of chronic contamination of groundwaters by both arsenic (As) and fluoride (F) and considers strategies for their removal and safe disposal.
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Iron and aluminium based adsorption strategies for removing arsenic from water.
TL;DR: This review briefly presents iron and aluminium based adsorbents for arsenic removal and point-of-use adsorptive remediation methods indicate that Sono Arsenic filter and Kanchan™ ArsenIC filter are in operation at various locations of Bangladesh and Nepal.
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Contamination of drinking water resources in the Mekong delta floodplains: arsenic and other trace metals pose serious health risks to population.
Johanna Buschmann,Michael Berg,Caroline Stengel,Lenny H. E. Winkel,Mickey L. Sampson,Pham Thi Kim Trang,Pham Hung Viet +6 more
TL;DR: Measurements imply that groundwater contamination is of geogenic origin and caused by natural anoxic conditions in the aquifers, which is the most serious health risk for the ~2 million people drinking this groundwater without treatment.
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Effects of in utero arsenic exposure on child immunity and morbidity in rural Bangladesh.
Rubhana Raqib,Sultan Ahmed,Rokeya Sultana,Yukiko Wagatsuma,Dinesh Mondal,A. M. Waheedul Hoque,Barbro Nermell,Mohammed Yunus,Shantonu Roy,Lars Åke Persson,Shams El Arifeen,Sophie E. Moore,Marie Vahter +12 more
TL;DR: In utero arsenic exposure impaired child thymic development and enhanced morbidity, probably via immunosuppression, and the effect seemed to be partially gender dependent.
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A review of the source, behaviour and distribution of arsenic in natural waters
TL;DR: The scale of the problem in terms of population exposed to high As concentrations is greatest in the Bengal Basin with more than 40 million people drinking water containing ‘excessive’ As as mentioned in this paper.
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Contamination of drinking-water by arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency
TL;DR: The experience in Bangladesh shows that groundwater sources throughout the world that are used for drinking-water should be tested for arsenic, and the fundamental intervention is the identification and provision of arsenic-free drinking water.
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Mechanism of arsenic release to groundwater, Bangladesh and West Bengal
TL;DR: In some areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, concentrations of As in groundwater exceed guide concentrations, set internationally and nationally at 10 to 50 m gl ˇ1 and may reach levels in the mg l ˆ 1 range.
Some drinking-water disinfectants and contaminants, including arsenic
W. M Anders,Richard J. Bull,Kenneth P. Cantor,Dipankar Chakraborti,C. Chen,A. B. DeAngelo,David M. DeMarini,Catterina Ferreccio,S. Fukushima,T. W. Gebel,D. N. Mazumder,M. R. Karagas,Manolis Kogevinas,H. Komulainen,F. Le Curieux,Andrew A. Meharg,Jack C. Ng,Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen,S. Olin,M. Pereira,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,J. A. Roberson +21 more
TL;DR: Members M.W. Anders, Richard J. Bull, Chien-Jen Chen, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, and Catterina Ferreccio.
Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh
TL;DR: A survey of well waters from throughout Bangladesh, excluding the Chitt;agong Hill Tracts, has shown that water from 27% of the'shallow' tubewells, that is, wells less than 150 m deep, exceeded the Bangladesh standard for arsenic in drinking water (50 flg L -I) as mentioned in this paper.