Arsenic contamination of groundwater and its health impact on residents in a village in West Bengal, India

Arsenic contamination of groundwater and its health impact on residents in a village in West Bengal, India

An in-depth study was carried out in Rajapur, an arsenic-affected village in West Bengal, India, to determine the degree of groundwater contamination with arsenic and the impact of this contamination on residents. The flow injection hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (FI-HG-AAS) metho...

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Main Authors: Rahman Mohammad Mahmudur, Sengupta Mrinal Kumar, Ahamed Sad, Chowdhury Uttam Kumar, Lodh Dilip, Hossain Amir, Das Bhaskar, Roy Niladri, Saha Kshitish Chandra, Palit Shyamal Kanti, Chakraborti Dipankar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2005-01-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Arsenic/toxicity
Arsenic/urine
Water pollution, Chemical/prevention and control
Fresh water/analysis
Filtration/instrumentation
Skin manifestations
India
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862005000100014

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