title: Arsenic exposure through groundwater to the rural and urban population in the Allahabad-Kanpur track in the upper Ganga plain.
abstract: This preliminary study reports for the first time that part of the rural population in the Allahabad district and the urban population in the Suklaganj-Kanpur of Unnao district in the Allahabad-Kanpur track of the upper Ganga plain are drinking and using for agricultural irrigation arsenic contaminated water (maximum arsenic concentrations in drinking water and urine are 707 and 1744 microg L(-1) respectively) mostly from shallow hand tube-wells (depth 7.5-40 m) without knowing that these are arsenic contaminated.
authors: School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. dcsoesju@vsnl.com
authors: Dipankar
authors: D
authors: Chakraborti
authors: Swapan Kumar
authors: SK
authors: Ghorai
authors: Bhaskar
authors: B
authors: Das
authors: Arup
authors: A
authors: Pal
authors: Bishwajit
authors: B
authors: Nayak
authors: Babar Ali
authors: BA
authors: Shah
mesh_terms: D001149:Arsenates / Q000652:urine; D001151:Arsenic / Q000032:analysis* / Q000652:urine; D018053:Arsenites / Q000652:urine; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005843:Geography; D007194:India; D012424:Rural Population; D014505:Urban Population; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis* / Q000652:urine
chemical_list: D001149:Arsenates; D018053:Arsenites; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D014867:Water; C015001:arsenite; D001151:Arsenic; C025657:arsenic acid