Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bihar: Causes, Issues and Challenges
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Arsenic groundwater contamination in parts of middle Ganga plain, Bihar
Arsenic contamination of groundwater in low-lying Bhagarathi–Ganga deltaic plain is known for more than two decades. The problem was recognized in 1984 (ref. 1) in West Bengal, when 16 patients from a village of 24 Parganas district reported arsenicosis. Subsequent investigations revealed extensive arsenic contamination in groundwater in the Bengal Basin affecting the eastern part of West Benga...
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متن کاملgroundwater arsenic contamination and associated health risks in bihar, india
the extent of groundwater arsenic (as) contamination and associated health-risks were studiedin the four villages: chaukia and terahrasiya (vaishali); mamalkha and masharu (bhagalpur) in bihar, india.groundwater samples were tested using the standard silverdiethyledithiocarbamate method at 520nm bythermo uv-1 spectrophotometer. the as levels in both the districts exceeded the who standard of 10...
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عنوان ژورنال: MANTHAN: Journal of Commerce and Management
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2347-4440
DOI: 10.17492/manthan.v2i1.6434