Arsenic in groundwater of West Bengal, India: a review of human health risks and assessment of possible intervention options

S Bhowmick, S Pramanik, P Singh, P Mondal… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Spatial and temporal variations of groundwater arsenic in South and Southeast Asia

S Fendorf, HA Michael, A Van Geen - Science, 2010 - science.org
Over the past few decades, groundwater wells installed in rural areas throughout the major
river basins draining the Himalayas have become the main source of drinking water for tens …

Sedimentogenesis and hydrobiogeochemistry of high arsenic Late Pleistocene-Holocene aquifer systems

Y Wang, K Pi, S Fendorf, Y Deng, X Xie - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Geogenic enrichment of arsenic (As) in groundwater has been a topic of worldwide concern
over the past several decades due to the severe health threat to an estimated over one …

Retardation of arsenic transport through a Pleistocene aquifer

A Van Geen, BC Bostick, P Thi Kim Trang, VM Lan… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Groundwater drawn daily from shallow alluvial sands by millions of wells over large areas of
south and southeast Asia exposes an estimated population of over a hundred million people …

Megacity pumping and preferential flow threaten groundwater quality

MR Khan, M Koneshloo, PSK Knappett… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Many of the world's megacities depend on groundwater from geologically complex aquifers
that are over-exploited and threatened by contamination. Here, using the example of Dhaka …

Coupling of arsenic mobility to sulfur transformations during microbial sulfate reduction in the presence and absence of humic acid

ED Burton, SG Johnston, B Planer-Friedrich - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Microbial sulfate reduction is an important terminal electron accepting process in arsenic-
contaminated subsurface environments. Humic acids are ubiquitous in such environments …

Elevated arsenic in deeper groundwater of the western Bengal basin, India: Extent and controls from regional to local scale

A Mukherjee, AE Fryar, BR Scanlon, P Bhattacharya… - Applied …, 2011 - Elsevier
The deeper groundwater (depending on definition) of the Bengal basin (Ganges–
Brahmaputra delta) has long been considered as an alternate, safe drinking-water source in …

Increases in groundwater arsenic concentrations and risk under decadal groundwater withdrawal in the lower reaches of the Yellow River basin, Henan Province …

W Cao, Z Gao, H Guo, D Pan, W Qiao, S Wang… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The spatiotemporal variability in groundwater arsenic concentrations following extensive
groundwater extractions over decades was rarely studied on a large scale. To fill this gap …

Hydrogeochemical contrast between brown and grey sand aquifers in shallow depth of Bengal Basin: consequences for sustainable drinking water supply

A Biswas, B Nath, P Bhattacharya, D Halder… - Science of the Total …, 2012 - Elsevier
Delineation of safe aquifer (s) that can be targeted by cheap drilling technology for tubewell
(TW) installation becomes highly imperative to ensure access to safe and sustainable …

A model for the evolution in water chemistry of an arsenic contaminated aquifer over the last 6000 years, Red River floodplain, Vietnam

D Postma, TKT Pham, HU Sø, ML Vi, TT Nguyen… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Aquifers on the Red River flood plain with burial ages ranging from 500 to 6000
years show, with increasing age, the following changes in solute concentrations; a decrease …