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1. A decade of investigations on groundwater arsenic contamination in Middle Ganga Plain, India

Author:
Saha, Dipankar; Sahu, Sudarsan
Source:
Environmental geochemistry and health 2016 v.38 no.2 pp. 315-337
ISSN:
0269-4042
Subject:
alluvium; aquifers; arsenic; basins; carbon; clay; coatings; drinking; drinking water; floodplains; groundwater; health hazards; people; rain; rivers; spatial variation; surface water; temporal variation; water supply; India
Abstract:
... Groundwater arsenic (As) load in excess of drinking limit (50 µg L⁻¹) in the Gangetic Plains was first detected in 2002. Though the menace was known since about two decades from the downstream part of the plains in the Bengal Basin, comprising of Lower Ganga Plain and deltaic plains of Ganga–Brahmaputra–Meghna River system, little thought was given to its possible threat in the upstream parts in t ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10653-015-9730-z

2. Characterization and assessment of contaminated soil and groundwater at an organic chemical plant site in Chongqing, Southwest China

Author:
Liu, Geng; Niu, Junjie; Zhang, Chao; Guo, Guanlin
Source:
Environmental geochemistry and health 2016 v.38 no.2 pp. 607-618
ISSN:
0269-4042
Subject:
benzene; chemistry; ecosystems; ethylene dichloride; groundwater; groundwater contamination; human health; models; neoplasms; polluted soils; risk; river water; soil pollution; soil sampling; China
Abstract:
... Contamination from organic chemical plants can cause serious pollution of soil and groundwater ecosystems. To characterize soil contamination and to evaluate the health risk posed by groundwater at a typical organic chemical plant site in Chongqing, China, 91 soil samples and seven groundwater samples were collected. The concentrations of different contaminants and their three-dimensional distribu ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10653-015-9746-4

3. Distribution of toxic elements and transfer from the environment to humans traced by using lead isotopes. A case of study in the Sarno River basin, south Italy

Author:
Cicchella, Domenico; Hoogewerff, Jurian; Albanese, Stefano; Adamo, Paola; Lima, Annamaria; Taiani, Manuela V. E.; De Vivo, Benedetto
Source:
Environmental geochemistry and health 2016 v.38 no.2 pp. 619-637
ISSN:
0269-4042
Subject:
antimony; arsenic; cadmium; case studies; chromium; copper; exposure pathways; gasoline; groundwater; humans; ingestion; isotopes; lead; lettuce; mercury; mixing; nickel; pollution; risk; sediments; streams; surface water; tanneries; tin; topsoil; toxic substances; watersheds; zinc; Italy
Abstract:
... The results of a large geochemical study on various environmental media (soil, stream sediment, groundwater, surface water, lettuce and human hair) of the Sarno River basin, which is one of the most polluted areas in Italy, are presented. Further, it aims to deepen our understanding of the distribution of Pb and its isotope composition for the differentiation between natural and anthropogenic meta ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10653-015-9748-2

4. High soil and groundwater arsenic levels induce high body arsenic loads, health risk and potential anemia for inhabitants of northeastern Iran

Author:
Taheri, Masumeh; Mehrzad, Jalil; Mahmudy Gharaie, Mohamad Hosein; Afshari, Reza; Dadsetan, Ahmad; Hami, Shakiba
Source:
Environmental geochemistry and health 2016 v.38 no.2 pp. 469-482
ISSN:
0269-4042
Subject:
adults; anemia; arsenic; atomic absorption spectrometry; bioavailability; biochemical pathways; blood cells; drinking water; groundwater; herds; humans; mineralization; neoplasms; public health; pyrite; risk; rocks; sheep; urine; wool; Afghanistan; Iran; Pakistan; Turkmenistan
Abstract:
... Arsenic bioavailability in rock, soil and water resources is notoriously hazardous. Geogenic arsenic enters the body and adversely affects many biochemical processes in animals and humans, posing risk to public health. Chelpu is located in NE Iran, where realgar, orpiment and pyrite mineralization is the source of arsenic in the macroenvironment. Using cluster random sampling strategy eight rocks, ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10653-015-9733-9

5. Inferring the fluoride hydrogeochemistry and effect of consuming fluoride-contaminated drinking water on human health in some endemic areas of Birbhum district, West Bengal

Author:
Mondal, D.; Dutta, G.; Gupta, S.
Source:
Environmental geochemistry and health 2016 v.38 no.2 pp. 557-576
ISSN:
0269-4042
Subject:
bone density; calcite; drinking water; excretion; fluorosis; groundwater; human health; ion exchange; osteoporosis; people; school children; surveys; villages; India
Abstract:
... This research work is carried out to evaluate fluoride (F) hydrogeochemistry and its effect on the population of two endemic villages of Birbhum district, West Bengal. Fluoride concentration in drinking water varies from 0.33 to 18.08 mg/L. Hydrogeochemical evolution suggests that ion-exchange mechanism is the major controlling factor for releasing F in the groundwater. Most of the groundwater sam ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10653-015-9743-7

6. Lithological and hydrochemical controls on distribution and speciation of uranium in groundwaters of hard-rock granitic aquifers of Madurai District, Tamil Nadu (India)

Author:
Thivya, C.; Chidambaram, S.; Keesari, Tirumalesh; Prasanna, M. V.; Thilagavathi, R.; Adithya, V. S.; Singaraja, C.
Source:
Environmental geochemistry and health 2016 v.38 no.2 pp. 497-509
ISSN:
0269-4042
Subject:
aquifers; bicarbonates; drinking water; groundwater; health hazards; hydrochemistry; ions; minerals; uranium; weathering; India
Abstract:
... Uranium is a radioactive element normally present in hexavalent form as U(VI) in solution and elevated levels in drinking water cause health hazards. Representative groundwater samples were collected from different litho-units in this region and were analyzed for total U and major and minor ions. Results indicate that the highest U concentration (113 µg l⁻¹) was found in granitic terrains of this ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10653-015-9735-7