Ross T. Nickson, J.M. McArthur, Peter Ravenscroft, W. G. Burgess et al.
James Manor
No AccessDirections in Development - General1 Feb 2013The Political Economy of Democratic DecentralizationAuthors/Editors: James ManorJames Manorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4470-6SectionsAboutPDF (0.4 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstrac...
Deepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai A. Schafft, Anne Rademacher et al.
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Can Anyone Hear Us?Voices of the PoorAuthors/Editors: Deepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch-SchulteDeepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch-Schultehttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-1952-1601-6SectionsAboutPDF (2...
Ujjwal K. Chowdhury, Bhajan Kumar Biswas, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Samanta et al.
Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of the 42 districts in Bangladesh and the 9 districts in West Bengal are 92,106 km(2) and 79.9...
List of Figures. List of Tables. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Glossary. 1. Introduction . 1.1. Background. 1.2. The Nature of Arsenic Pollution. 1.3. History of Natural Arsenic Contamination. 1.4. Arsenic Pollution. 1.5. Risk, Perception and Social Impacts. 1.6. ...
Mandeep Chadha, James A. Comer, Luis Lowe, Paul A. Rota et al.
During January and February 2001, an outbreak of febrile illness associated with altered sensorium was observed in Siliguri, West Bengal, India. Laboratory investigations at the time of the outbreak did not identify an infectious agent. Because Siliguri is in close proximity to Bangladesh, where out...
Joinal Abedin, Malcolm S. Cresser, Andy A. Meharg, Jörg Feldmann et al.
The use of arsenic (As) contaminated groundwater for irrigation of crops has resulted in elevated concentrations of arsenic in agricultural soils in Bangladesh, West Bengal (India), and elsewhere. Paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the main agricultural crop grown in the arsenic-affected areas of Bangl...
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...
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Badal Kumar Mondal et al.
Fifty districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal, India have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization's maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of 50 districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal are 118,849 km2 and 104.9 millio...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Bhaskar Das, Matthew Murrill et al.
Since 1996, 52,202 water samples from hand tubewells were analyzed for arsenic (As) by flow injection hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (FI-HG-AAS) from all 64 districts of Bangladesh; 27.2% and 42.1% of the tubewells had As above 50 and 10 μg/l, respectively; 7.5% contained As above...
Samuel Y. Johnson, ABU MD. NUR ALAM
Research Article| November 01, 1991 Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON; SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON 1U.S. Geological Survey, M.S. 939, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar ABU MD. NUR A...
Kiran Kalia, S.J.S. Flora
Exposure to toxic metals remains a widespread occupational and environmental problem in world. There have been a number of reports in the recent past suggesting an incidence of childhood lead poisoning and chronic arsenic poisoning due to contaminated drinking water in many areas of West Bengal in I...
Willem van Schendel
Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the...
Winston Yu, Charles M. Harvey, Charles F. Harvey
This paper examines the health crisis in Bangladesh due to dissolved arsenic in groundwater. First, we use geostatistical methods to construct a map of arsenic concentrations that divides Bangladesh into regions and estimate vertical concentration trends in these regions. Then, we use census data to...
J.M. McArthur, Pradip K. Sikdar, M. A. Hoque, Utsab Ghosal
Across West Bengal and Bangladesh, concentrations of Cl in much groundwater exceed the natural, upper limit of 10 mg/L. The Cl/Br mass ratios in groundwaters range up to 2500 and scatter along mixing lines between waste-water and dilute groundwater, with many falling near the mean end-member value f...
Durlav Prasad Bora
Kala-azar has re-emerged from near eradication. The annual estimate for the incidence and prevalence of kala-azar cases worldwide is 0.5 million and 2.5 million, respectively. Of these, 90% of the confirmed cases occur in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sudan. In India, it is a serious problem in Bihar...
Priorities for rice research - introduction recent developments in the Asian rice economy - challenges for rice research, Mahabub Hossain rice ecosystems analysis for research prioritization, V. Pal Singh and Dennis Garrity prospects and approaches to increasing the genetic yield of rice, G.S. Khush...
Socorro Medina, Robert A. Houze, Anil Kumar, Dev Niyogi
Abstract During the Asian summer monsoon, convection occurs frequently near the Himalayan foothills. However, the nature of the convective systems varies dramatically from the western to eastern foothills. The analysis of high‐resolution numerical simulations and available observations from two case...
Jessica Dittmar, Andreas Voegelin, Linda C. Roberts, Stephan J. Hug et al.
Arsenic-rich groundwater from shallow tube wells is widely used for the irrigation of boro rice in Bangladesh and West Bengal. In the long term this may lead to the accumulation of As in paddy soils and potentially have adverse effects on rice yield and quality. In the companion article in this issu...
Nrashant Singh, Deepak Kumar, Anand P. Sahu
Arsenic is a major environmental pollutant and exposure occurs through environmental, occupational and medicinal sources. The contaminated drinking water is the main source of exposure and affected countries are India (West Bengal), Bangladesh, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Chile, Argentina and Romania. ...