Pollution assessment and estimation of the percentages of toxic elements to be removed to make polluted drinking water safe: a case from Nigeria

JC Egbueri, DA Ayejoto, JC Agbasi - Toxin Reviews, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper aimed to assess the water quality and estimate the percentages of potentially
toxic elements that would be removed to make water resources in Ojoto and its environs …

Geochemical control, water quality indexing, source distribution, and potential health risk of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater: Occurrence, sources apportionment …

A Rashid, M Ayub, J Bundschuh, X Gao, Z Ullah… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Fluoride (F-), and arsenic (As) in the groundwater cause health problems in
developing countries, including Pakistan. We evaluated the occurrence, distribution, sources …

Groundwater quality, health risk assessment, and source distribution of heavy metals contamination around chromite mines: Application of GIS, sustainable …

A Rashid, M Ayub, Z Ullah, A Ali, T Sardar… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Groundwater contamination by heavy metals (HMs) released by weathering and mineral
dissolution of granite, gneisses, ultramafic, and basaltic rock composition causes human …

Geochemical modeling, source apportionment, health risk exposure and control of higher fluoride in groundwater of sub-district Dargai, Pakistan

A Rashid, A Farooqi, X Gao, S Zahir, S Noor… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study examined the hydrogeochemical profile of higher fluoride (F─) in
groundwater of mixed industrial and mining areas of Dargai, northern Pakistan …

Evaluation of the Swat River, Northern Pakistan, water quality using multivariate statistical techniques and water quality index (WQI) model

S Jehan, I Ullah, S Khan, S Muhammad… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
This study evaluates the characteristics of water along the Swat River, Northern Pakistan.
For this purpose, water samples (n= 30) were collected and analyzed for physicochemical …

Hydrogeochemical assessment of carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks of potentially toxic elements in aquifers of the Hindukush ranges, Pakistan: Insights …

A Rashid, M Ayub, S Khan, Z Ullah, L Ali, X Gao… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Globally, potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and bacterial contamination pose health hazards,
persistency, and genotoxicity in the groundwater aquifer. This study evaluates PTE …

The distribution characteristics and human health risks of high-fluorine groundwater in coastal plain: A case study in Southern Laizhou Bay, China

S Liu, Y Liu, C Wang, X Dang - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
High-F groundwater has caused serious human health problems worldwide. In this paper, a
typical saline-fresh water mixing zone (SFMZ) in a coastal plain (south of Laizhou Bay …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogeological properties, sources provenance, and health risk exposure of fluoride in the groundwater of Batkhela, Pakistan

S Noor, A Rashid, A Javed, JA Khattak… - … Technology & Innovation, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aimed to determine the fluoride (F−) concentration, fate distribution, source
provenance, geochemistry, and health risk exposure through oral ingestion of groundwater …

[HTML][HTML] Potentially harmful metals, and health risk evaluation in groundwater of Mardan, Pakistan: Application of geostatistical approach and geographic information …

A Rashid, M Ayub, A Javed, S Khan, X Gao, C Li… - Geoscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates the values of pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), elevation, oxidative
reduction potential (ORP), temperature, and depth, while the concentrations of Br, and …

Exposure risk to heavy metals through surface and groundwater used for drinking and household activities in Ifite Ogwari, Southeastern Nigeria

VN Okafor, DO Omokpariola, OF Obumselu… - Applied Water …, 2023 - Springer
Surface and groundwater are the most common sources of water in Nigeria's rural
communities, which are used for a variety of purposes ranging from farming to industrial …