Geir Bjørklund, Yuliya Semenova, Lyudmila Pivina, Maryam Dadar et al.
Uranium (U) has no known essential biological functions. Furthermore, it is well known for its toxicity, radioactivity, and carcinogenic potency. Impacts on human health due to U exposure have been studied extensively by many researchers. Chronic exposure to low-level U isotopes (radionuclides) may ...
Sanjoy Shil, Umesh Kumar Singh, Pankaj Mehta
Abstract Mahananda River is an important river in India and Bangladesh, as the people of both the countries use the water extensively, without sufficient and reliable information about water qualities and pollution status. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the water quality of the river and t...
Sudip Saha, A.H.M. Selim Reza, Mrinal Kanti Roy
Abstract The Tista is a Trans-Himalayan river that flows through Sikkim and West Bengal states of India and Rangpur division of Bangladesh and finally falls into the Brahmaputra River. The presence of numerous abandoned channels with various degrees of aggradations indicates large migrations of the ...
Md Sifat Siddik, Shibli Sadik Tulip, Atikur Rahman, Md. Nazrul Islam et al.
Groundwater recharge is affected by various anthropogenic activities, land use and land cover (LULC) change among these. The long-term temporal and seasonal changes in LULC have a substantial influence on groundwater flow dynamics. Therefore, assessment of the impacts of LULC changes on recharge is ...
David A. Polya, Andrew G. Gault, N. Diebe, Peter Roy Feldman et al.
Abstract Our recent discovery of hazardous concentrations of arsenic in shallow sedimentary aquifers in Cambodia raises the spectre of future deleterious health impacts on a population that, particularly in non-urban areas, extensively use untreated groundwater as a source of drinking water and, in ...
Md Mezbaul Bahar, Md. Salim Reza
Arafat Rahman, Ishrat Jahanara, Yeasmin Nahar Jolly
To assess the magnitude of water quality decline in the Turag River of Bangladesh, this study examined the seasonal variation of physicochemical parameters of water, identified potential pollution sources, and clustered the monitoring months with similar characteristics. Water samples were collected...
Holly A. Michael, Clifford I. Voss
Tens of millions of people in the Bengal Basin region of Bangladesh and India drink groundwater containing unsafe concentrations of arsenic. This high-arsenic groundwater is produced from shallow (<100 m) depths by domestic and irrigation wells in the Bengal Basin aquifer system. The government of B...
M. Stute, Yan Zheng, Peter Schlösser, A. Horneman et al.
The elevated arsenic (As) content of groundwater from wells across Bangladesh and several other South Asian countries is estimated to slowly poison at least 100 million people. The heterogeneous distribution of dissolved arsenic in the subsurface complicates understanding of its release from the sed...
H.C. Bonsor, Alan MacDonald, Kazi Matin Ahmed, W. G. Burgess et al.
The Indo-Gangetic aquifer is one of the world's most important transboundary water resources, and the most heavily exploited aquifer in the world. To better understand the aquifer system, typologies have been characterized for the aquifer, which integrate existing datasets across the Indo-Gangetic c...
Pradeep Aggarwal, K. Fröhlich, K.M. Kulkarni, Laurence Gourcy
Stable isotope compositions of present day precipitation in the 70°E–160°W longitude range reveal a strong correlation with moisture source and transport patterns and are not correlated with the amount of precipitation, contrary to existing interpretations. Spatially and temporally variable moisture...
M. Ashraf Ali, David A. Dzombak
Abhijit Mukherjee, Mattias von Brömssen, Bridget R. Scanlon, Prosun Bhattacharya et al.
Although arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater in the Bengal Basin has received wide attention over the past decade, comparative studies of hydrogeochemistry in geologically different sub-basins within the basin have been lacking. Groundwater samples were collected from sub-basins in the western...
M.A. Rakib, Jun Sasaki, Hirotaka Matsuda, Shamshad B. Quraishi et al.
Household drinking water security is one of the major issues among coastal communities in Bangladesh. To examine the groundwater quality and social consequences, groundwater samples and household questionnaires were administered across the study area. Instrumental and statistical tools were used to ...
Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Md Atikul Islam, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Md. Iftakharul Muhib et al.