Tushaar Shah, Aditi Deb Roy, Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Jinxia Wang
This article suggests that Asia’s groundwater socio‐ecology is at an impasse. Rapid growth in groundwater irrigation in South Asia and the North China plains during the period 1970–95 has been the main driver of the agrarian boom in these regions. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China account for th...
Shamsuddin Shahid
Imran Ali Lakhiar, Haofang Yan, Chuan Zhang, Guoqing Wang et al.
Water is considered one of the vital natural resources and factors for performing short- and long-term agricultural practices on Earth. Meanwhile, globally, most of the available freshwater resources are utilized for irrigation purposes in agriculture. Currently, many world regions are facing extrem...
Malgosia Madajewicz, Alexander Pfaff, Alexander van Geen, Joseph H. Graziano et al.
M. Feroze Ahmed, S. Ahuja, Mohammad Alauddin, Stephan J. Hug et al.
Excessive levels of arsenic in drinking water is a vast health problem in Southeast Asia. Several viable approaches to mitigation could drastically reduce arsenic exposure, but they all require periodic testing.
Tanvir H. Dewan
Bangladesh and Nepal lie between the Himalayas and low-lying coasts of the Bay of Bengal and are traversed by hundreds of rivers and tributaries. Historical data shows that, since 1970, the scale, intensity and duration of floods have increased in Bangladesh and Nepal, causing grave human suffering;...
Joshua Halder, Nazrul Islam
River pollution has been one of the main topics in the environmental issue of urban Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. This study was conducted to find out the pollution situation of Turag river and the health problem of the surrounding residents. The results clearly determine that the water qua...
Faruque Ahmed, Hiroaki Ishiga
Abhijit Mukherjee, Dipankar Saha, Charles F. Harvey, Richard G. Taylor et al.
The Indian Sub-Continent is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, hosting ∼23% of the global population within only ∼3% of the world's land area. It encompasses some of the world's largest fluvial systems in the world (River Brahmaputra, Ganges and Indus Basins), which hosts some o...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Sushant K. Singh, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Rathindra Nath Dutta et al.
This study highlights the severity of arsenic contamination in the Ganga River basin (GRB), which encompasses significant geographic portions of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Tibet. The entire GRB experiences elevated levels of arsenic in the groundwater (up to 4730 µg/L), irrigation water (~1000 µg...
Sk Akhtar Ahmad, Manzurul Haque Khan, Mushfiqul Haque
Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh has been recognized as a major public problem. The arsenic contamination was first identified in the tubewell water in 1993 in a northern district of Bangladesh. Tubewells are the main source of drinking water in rural areas, and except hilly and te...
Mohammad Shamsudduha, Richard E. Chandler, Richard G. Taylor, Kazi Matin Ahmed
Abstract. Groundwater levels in shallow aquifers underlying Asian mega-deltas are characterized by strong seasonal variations associated with monsoon rainfall. To resolve trend and seasonal components in weekly groundwater levels in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Delta, we apply a nonparametric...
Mohammad Alauddin, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker
Paolo Vineis, Queenie Chan, Aneire Khan
It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbate...
Mohammad Shamsudduha, Richard G. Taylor, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Anwar Zahid