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High arsenic contamination and presence of other trace metals in drinking water of Kushtia district, Bangladesh
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Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Huazhong Agricultural University, University of Swabi, ...
Published InJournal of Environmental Management
Year2019
Citations63
Abstract
Drinking water with excessive concentration levels of arsenic (As) is a great threat to human health. A hydrochemical approach was employed in 50 drinking water samples (collected from Kushtia district, Bangladesh) to examine the occurrence of geogenic As and the presence of trace metals (TMs), as well as the factors controlling As release in aquifers. The results reveal that the drinking water of shallow aquifers is highly contaminated by As (6.05-590.7 μg/L); 82% of samples were found to exceed the WHO recommended limit (10 μg/L) for potable water, but the concentrations of Si, B, Mn, Sr, Se, Ba, Fe, Cd, Pb, F, U, Ni, Li, and Cr were within safe limits. The Ca-HCO3-type drinking water was identified as having high…
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