Amitava Mukherjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Mohammed Hossain, Sad Ahamed et al.
The incidence of high concentrations of arsenic in drinking-water has emerged as a major public-health problem. With newer-affected sites discovered during the last decade, a significant change has been observed in the global scenario of arsenic contamination, especially in Asian countries. This com...
Md. Amir Hossain, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman et al.
In the recent past, arsenic contamination in groundwater has emerged as an epidemic in different Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, India, and China. Arsenic removal plants (ARP) are one possible option to provide arsenic-safe drinking water. This paper evaluates the efficiency of ARP projects in ...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak et al.
Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shymapada Pati, Rathindra Nath Dutta et al.
INTRODUCTION: To understand the severity of related health effects of chronic arsenic exposure in West Bengal, a detailed 3-year study was carried out in Murshidabad, one of the nine arsenic-affected districts in West Bengal. METHODS: We screened 25,274 people from 139 arsenic-affected villages in M...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Elangbam Jayantakumar Singh, Bhaskar Das, Babar Ali Shah et al.
Bhaskar Das, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Bishwajit Nayak, Arup Pal et al.
Sad Ahamed, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Subhas Chandra Mukherjee, Shyamapada Pati et al.
Based on several surveys during 1997-2005 and visits of a medical team to Eruani village, Laksham upazila, Comilla district, Bangladesh, the arsenic contamination situation and consequent clinical manifestations of arsenicosis among the villagers, including dermatology, neuropathy, and obstetric out...
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Dilip Lodh et al.
INTRODUCTION: To understand the severity of the arsenic crisis in West Bengal, India, a detailed, 3-year study was undertaken in Murshidabad, one of the nine arsenic-affected districts in West Bengal. The district covers an area of 5324 km2 with a population of 5.3 million. METHODS: Hand tubewell wa...
Arup Pal, Bishwajit Nayak, Bhaskar Das, Md. Amir Hossain et al.
In arsenic contaminated areas of the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra (GMB) plain (area 569,749 sq. km; population over 500 million) where traditionally cow dung cake is used as a fuel in unventilated ovens for cooking purposes, people are simply exposed to 1859.2 ng arsenic per day through direct inhalatio...
Bishwajit Nayak, Bhaskar Das, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Arup Pal et al.
A detailed study in the Sahibganj district of Jharkhand state in the middle Ganga plain was carried out to determine the severity of groundwater arsenic contamination and related adverse health effects due to chronic arsenic exposure. Arsenic was analyzed by flow injection hydride generation atomic ...
Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Amitava Mukherjee, Sad Ahamed, Md. Amir Hossain et al.
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Amitava Mukherjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Md. Amir Hossain et al.
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