D.G. Kinniburgh, Pauline Smedley
A survey of well waters (n=3534) from throughout Bang- ' ladesh, excluding the Chitt;agong Hill Tracts, has shown that water from 27% of the 'shallow' tubewells, that is wells less than 150 m deep, exceeded the Bangladesh standard for arsenic in drinking water (50 flg L -I). 46% exceeded the WH...
Pauline Smedley
A rapid growth in research on arsenic occurrence and behaviour in the environment has occurred over the last decade or so. Today, environmental arsenic problems have been recognised and documented in numerous countries across the world, in a range of geological and climatic settings. Arsenic can be ...
David G. Kinniburgh, Pauline Smedley, Jeff Davies, Chris J. Milne et al.
Groundwater is now extensively used for drinking water in Bangladesh and present estimates indicate that there are some 6–11 million tubewells in Bangladesh. It is now apparent that approximately 1/4 of these wells contain arsenic at concentrations exceeding the Bangladesh drinking water standard (5...
Pauline Smedley
Bangladesh has a total area of around 144,000 square kilometres and lies within the Bengal Basin of South Asia. It is bordered on most sides by India, and by Burma in the south-east. Bangladesh has a tropical monsoon climate with a high annual rainfall of 1000–2000 mm or more, falling mainly du...
David Kinniburgh (2344213), Pauline Smedley, Jeff Davies (7227053), S. Huq (7227056) et al.