Heavy metal pollution in drinking water-a global risk for human health: A review

F Fernandez-Luqueno, F Lopez-Valdez… - African Journal of …, 2013 - ajol.info
Water resources in the world have been profoundly influenced over the last years by human
activities, whereby the world is currently facing critical water supply and drinking water …

The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans

ED Swanner, N Lambrecht, C Wittkop, C Harding… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anoxic and iron-rich (ferruginous) conditions prevailed in the ocean under the low-oxygen
atmosphere that occurred through most of the Archean Eon. While euxinic conditions (ie …

Estimating the high-arsenic domestic-well population in the conterminous United States

JD Ayotte, L Medalie, SL Qi, LC Backer… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Arsenic concentrations from 20 450 domestic wells in the US were used to develop a logistic
regression model of the probability of having arsenic> 10 μg/L (“high arsenic”), which is …

Machine-learning predictions of high arsenic and high manganese at drinking water depths of the glacial aquifer system, northern continental United States

ML Erickson, SM Elliott, CJ Brown… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Globally, over 200 million people are chronically exposed to arsenic (As) and/or manganese
(Mn) from drinking water. We used machine-learning (ML) boosted regression tree (BRT) …

Arsenic species in drinking water wells in the USA with high arsenic concentrations

TJ Sorg, ASC Chen, L Wang - Water Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Arsenic exists in ground water as oxyanions having two oxidation states, As (III) and As (V),
and its concentrations vary widely and regionally across the United States (USA). Because …

Low-level arsenic exposure from drinking water is associated with prostate cancer in Iowa

T Roh, CF Lynch, P Weyer, K Wang, KM Kelly… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Inorganic arsenic is a toxic naturally occurring element in soil and water in many regions of
the US including the Midwest. Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in …

Predicting redox‐sensitive contaminant concentrations in groundwater using random forest classification

AJ Tesoriero, JA Gronberg, PF Juckem… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Machine learning techniques were applied to a large (n> 10,000) compliance
monitoring database to predict the occurrence of several redox‐active constituents in …

Hijacking membrane transporters for arsenic phytoextraction

MS LeBlanc, EC McKinney, RB Meagher… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Arsenic is a toxic metalloid and recognized carcinogen. Arsenate and arsenite are the most
common arsenic species available for uptake by plants. As an inorganic phosphate (Pi) …

Influence of tectonics, sedimentation and aqueous flow cycles on the origin of global groundwater arsenic: paradigms from three continents

A Mukherjee, S Verma, S Gupta, KR Henke… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) is a trace element in the Earth's crust. However, its presence in elevated
concentrations in groundwaters of major aquifers around the world raises concern about its …

Drinking water quality in the glacial aquifer system, northern USA

ML Erickson, RM Yager, LJ Kauffman… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Groundwater supplies 50% of drinking water worldwide, but compromised water quality from
anthropogenic and geogenic contaminants can limit usage of groundwater as a drinking …