In Nepal, arsenic (As) contamination is a major issue of current drinking water supply
systems using groundwater and has recently been one of the major environmental health …

About 47% of Nepal's total population is living in Terai region and 90% of them are relying
on groundwater as their major source of drinking water. About 200,000 shallow tubewells …

Arsenic contamination in drinking water has a detrimental impact on human health which
profoundly impairs the quality of life. Despite recognition of the adverse health implications …

As in several other countries of Southeast Asia (namely Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, China,
Vietnam, and Cambodia) arsenic (As) concentrations in the groundwater of the lowlands of …

This paper reviews how active research in West Bengal has unmasked the endemic
arsenism that has detrimental effects on the health of millions of people and their offspring. It …

In Bangladesh, the majority of the irrigation and drinking water is supplied from underground
sources due to the limitation of surface water. In recent years, arsenic contamination has …

Since 1996, 52,202 water samples from hand tubewells were analyzed for arsenic (As) by
flow injection hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (FI-HG-AAS) from all 64 …

More than 2.5 billion people on the globe rely on groundwater for drinking and providing
high-quality drinking water has become one of the major challenges of human society …

The serious arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh has come out recently as
the biggest natural calamity in the world. The people in 59 out of 64 districts comprising …

This communication presents results of our 2-year survey on groundwater arsenic
contamination in three districts Ballia, Varanasi and Gazipur of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in the …