There are high levels of arsenic deposited in the bedrock in some states across the US. The substance contaminates the water aquifers beneath us, ending up in well water. Due to human activity, rocks, soil, and unsafe agricultural practices expose the environment to arsenic. When it rains, t...
These students from Trenton Elementary School in Trenton, Maine, are among those participating in a program to teach data literacy to Maine and New Hampshire students by analyzing data on arsenic in well water collected from their homes. The program found that 25 percent of samples exceed the Ne...
Inorganic arsenic causes cancer, and millions of people worldwide are exposed to arsenic-contaminated water. Regulatory standards for arsenic levels in drinking water generally do not apply to private domestic wells. Reverse osmosis (RO) units commonly are used by well owners to reduce arsenic concen...
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- An "alarmingly high" level of arsenic contamination was found in groundwater beneath the Indus Plain in Pakistan, putting up to 60 million people at risk of a variety of serious health problems including cancer, a new study said Wednesday. ...
drinking water safety in As-affected areas.States of the art of related studies mainly focus on As speciation of sediments in As-affected aquifers,arsenic mobilization mediated by microbes,application of isotopic techniques in recognizing As source and transfer,and technologies for As drinking water ...
The objective of this study is to elucidate the association between high-arsenic artesian well water and cancers in endemic area of blackfoot disease, a unique peripheral vascular disease related to continuous arsenic exposure. As compared with the general population in Taiwan, both the standardized ...
Arsenic mobilizationShallow groundwaterFe–Al oxyhydroxideDeep aquiferHealth effectMost of the shallow aquifers (<50 m) of the Southwestern Bangladesh have been producing highly arsenic (As)-contaminated groundwater. This paper aims to provide an insight into the possible causes of...
Bhatia, S.; Balamurugan, G.; Baranwal, A., (2014). High arsenic contamination in drinking water hand-pumps in Khap Tola, West Champaran, Bihar, India. Front. Environ. Sci., 2(49):1-8 (9 pages).Bhatia, S., Balamurugan, G., Baranwal, A., High arsenic contamination in drinking ...
The microbial community structure in groundwater along the drainage channels was different from those in strongly reducing arsenic-rich aquifers of Hetao Plain and other high arsenic groundwater aquifers including Bangladesh, West Bengal, and Vietnam.AcinetobacterandPseudomonasdominated with high percentages...