In 2001 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lowered the Maximum Contaminant Level for arsenic from 50 μg/L to 10 μg/L. Public water suppliers are required to comply with the lower standard by January of 2006 and several thousand water systems nationally are looking for efficient and inexpensive ways to remove arsenic. Ferric coagulation/filtration and ferric coagulation/microfiltrati...

Arsenic contamination in drinking waters has been a serious public health concern due to both carcinogenic and other health effects. The main sources of human exposure to arsenic are the drinking waters. Arsenic can cause chronic illness and death, even at low levels of arsenic concentration in drinking waters. There are many technologies available for removal of arsenic from contaminated drink...

Ferrous based red mud sludge (FRS) which combined the iron-arsenic co-precipitation and the high arsenic adsorption features was developed aimed at low arsenic water treatment in rural areas. Arsenic removal studies shown that FRS in dosage of 0.2 or 0.3g/l can be used effectively to remove arsenic from aqueous solutions when initial As(V) concentration was 0.2 or 0.3mg/l. Meanwhile, turbidity ...

In the context of prevalence of high concentrations of arsenic in tubewell water, a wide range technologies has been tried for the removal of arsenic from drinking water. The most common technologies utilized the conventional processes of oxidation, co-precipitation and adsorption onto coagulated flocs, adsorption onto sorptive media, ion exchange and membrane techniques for arsenic removal. Th...

Arsenic is a toxic metalloid existing widely in the environment, and its removal from contaminated water has become a global challenge. The use of bacteria in this regard finds a promising solution. In the present study, Exiguobacterium sp. As-9, which is an arsenic resistant bacterium, was selected with respect to its arsenic removal efficiency. Quantification of arsenic in the water treated w...

Arsenic is a carcinogenic metalloid that is currently regulated in drinking water. The levels of arsenic in finished water in an existing water treatment plant are exceeding the current regulation of 10 μg/L. One of the available technologies for arsenic removal from groundwater is adsorption onto coagulated flocs and in this field, ferric chloride is the most commonly used coagulant for arseni...

In a laboratory study, the effectiveness of combined tartrate and citrate as photocatalyst in solar photocatalytic oxidation and removal of arsenic from ground water was studied and a method, using a naturally occurring tartrate-citrate photocatalyst that can be used at the household level to treat small quantities of drinking water was developed. Kinetic tests performed with 250 μg/L As(III)-s...

Arsenic pollution in aquatic environments is a worldwide concern due to its toxicity and chronic effects on human health. This concern has generated increasing interest in the use of different treatment technologies to remove arsenic from contaminated water. Constructed wetlands are a cost-effective natural system successfully used for removing various pollutants, and they have shown capability...

Across Bangladesh, dry-season irrigation with arsenic-contaminated well water is loading arsenic onto rice paddies, leading to increased arsenic concentrations in plants, diminished crop yields, and increased human health risks. As irrigation water flows through conveyance channels between wells and rice fields, arsenic concentrations change over space and time, indicating that channels may pro...