[HTML][HTML] Environmental heavy metal contamination from Electronic Waste (e-waste) recycling activities worldwide: A systematic review from 2005 to 2017

MGK Houessionon, EMD Ouendo, C Bouland… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The recycling of electronic waste (e-waste) contaminates ecosystems with metals, though a
compilation of data from across sites worldwide is lacking, without which evidence-based …

[HTML][HTML] Risky responsibilities for rural drinking water institutions: The case of unregulated self-supply in Bangladesh

A Fischer, R Hope, A Manandhar, S Hoque… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
The drinking water sector is off track to reach Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.1 with
over a quarter of the world's population lacking safe and reliable services. Policy …

Field testing of over 30,000 wells for arsenic across 400 villages of the Punjab plains of Pakistan and India: implications for prioritizing mitigation

A van Geen, A Farooqi, A Kumar, JA Khattak… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Most of the rural population of 90 million in Punjab province in Pakistan and Punjab state in
India drinks, and cooks with, untreated water drawn from shallow wells. Limited laboratory …

Effectiveness of different approaches to arsenic mitigation over 18 years in Araihazar, Bangladesh: implications for national policy

NB Jamil, H Feng, KM Ahmed… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
About 20 million rural Bangladeshis continue to drink well water containing> 50 μg/L arsenic
(As). This analysis argues for reprioritizing interventions on the basis of a survey of wells …

Summarizing the recommendation of arsenic research during millennium development goals (MDGs) era in Bangladesh-future directions for the sustainable …

FM Yunus, S Khan, F Khanam, A Das… - Groundwater for …, 2019 - Elsevier
It is evident that arsenic has detrimental effect on health including deadlier disease such as
cancer, diabetes mellitus, birth defects which can eventually lead to adverse effect on our …

Soil arsenic but not rice arsenic increasing with arsenic in irrigation water in the Punjab plains of Pakistan

A Javed, A Farooqi, ZU Baig, T Ellis, A van Geen - Plant and soil, 2020 - Springer
Aim Irrigating rice with groundwater can lead to As accumulation in soil and rice grains.
Matched sets of irrigation water, paddy soil, and rice grains were collected to assess the …

Demand for environmental quality information and household response: Evidence from well-water arsenic testing

P Barnwal, A van Geen, J von der Goltz… - Journal of Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Access to information about environmental quality may facilitate low-cost preventive
measures that protect human health. In this paper, we study the demand for information …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in arsenic exposure in Araihazar, Bangladesh from 2001 through 2015 following a blanket well testing and education campaign

BL Huhmann, CF Harvey, A Navas-Acien… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Concentrations of arsenic (As) are elevated in a large proportion of
wells in Bangladesh but are spatially variable even within a village. This heterogeneity can …

Current status and technologies for treating groundwater arsenic pollution in Bangladesh

HM Tashdedul, NJDG Reyes, M Jeon… - Journal of Wetlands …, 2022 - koreascience.kr
Arsenic (As) contamination in groundwater is one of the main problems in Bangladesh. As
toxicity causes serious human health problems such as edema, skin cancer, bladder cancer …

Evaluating strategies to reduce arsenic poisoning in South Asia: A view from the social sciences

M Krupoff, AM Mobarak, A Geen - Asian Development Review, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract The World Health Organization has labeled the problem of arsenic contamination of
groundwater in South Asia as “the largest mass poisoning in human history.” Various …