Dipankar Chakraborti, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shyamapada Pati, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta et al.
The pandemic of arsenic poisoning due to contaminated groundwater in West Bengal, India, and all of Bangladesh has been thought to be limited to the Ganges Delta (the Lower Ganga Plain), despite early survey reports of arsenic contamination in groundwater in the Union Territory of Chandigarh and its...
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...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak 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...
Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Amitava Mukherjee, Md A. Hossain, Sad Ahamed et al.
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Khitish Chandra Saha, Subhas Chandra Mukherjee, Shyamapada Pati et al.
Abhijit Das, Antara Das, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Bhaskar Das et al.
On the basis of our survey and analysis of arsenic in the hand tube wells (n = 250,000) from the Ganga–Meghna–Brahmaputra (GMB) plain (area: 569,749 km2; population: above 500 million) over the last 23 years, we revealed that some portions of all the states in Ganga–Brahmaputra plains in India and B...
Abhijit Das, Archita Dey, Bhaskar Das, Subhas C Mukherjee et al.