International monitoring of drinking water and sanitation shapes awareness of countries'
needs and informs policy, implementation and research efforts to extend and improve …

The problem of arsenic pollution of groundwater used for domestic water supplies is now
well recognised in Bangladesh, India and some other countries of South and South-east …

A national drinking water quality survey conducted in 2009 furnished data that were used to
make an updated estimate of chronic arsenic exposure in Bangladesh. About 20 million and …

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 …

As a metalloid element, Arsenic (As) is widely distributed in the natural environment. Its
ingestion can cause cancer, deformities, and mutations. Therefore, it has become an …

Arsenic contamination of alluvial aquifers of the Bengal delta plain causes a serious threat to
human health for over 75 million people. The study aimed to explore the impacts of chemical …

The presence of high levels of carcinogenic metalloid arsenic (As) in the groundwater
system of Bangladesh has been considered as one of the major environmental disasters in …

Arsenic field test kits are widely used to measure arsenic levels in drinking water sources,
especially in countries like Bangladesh, where water supply is highly decentralized and …

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 …

The wide spread occurrence of geogenic arsenic in Bangladesh groundwater drastically
reduced the safe water access across the country. Since its discovery in 1993, different …