Geogenic groundwater contaminants (GGCs) affect drinking-water availability and safety,
with up to 60% of groundwater sources in some regions contaminated by more than …

The presence of arsenic in the groundwater of the densely-populated Bengal Basin evolved
as a mass-poisoning agent and is a reason for the misery of millions of people living here …

China is a typical high-As region, where 20 provinces have high As groundwaters among 34
provinces. These groundwaters usually occur in both arid–semiarid inland basins and river …

The health of tens of millions of people world-wide is at risk from drinking arsenic-
contaminated well water. In most cases this arsenic occurs naturally within the sub-surface …

The origin of dissolved arsenic in the Ganges Delta has puzzled researchers ever since the
report of widespread arsenic poisoning two decades ago. Today, microbially mediated …

Iron oxides may undergo structural transformations when entering an anoxic environment.
These transformations were investigated using the isotopic exchange between aqueous Fe …

The behaviour of trace amounts of arsenate coprecipitated with ferrihydrite, lepidocrocite
and goethite was studied during reductive dissolution and phase transformation of the iron …

Field-based research on naturally occurring arsenic contamination of surface waters and
groundwaters and the mechanisms of contamination are reviewed. The distribution of …

This book provides in-depth coverage of environmental pollution sources, waste
characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process …

A regional scale hydrogeochemical study of a∼ 21,000-km2 area in the western Bengal
basin shows the presence of hydrochemically distinct water bodies in the main semiconfined …