Arsenic exposure through groundwater to the rural and urban population in the Allahabad-Kanpur track in the upper Ganga plain.
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.
Chakraborti
Dipankar
D
School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. dcsoesju@vsnl.com
Ghorai
Swapan Kumar
SK
Das
Bhaskar
B
Pal
Arup
A
Nayak
Bishwajit
B
Shah
Babar Ali
BA
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
D001149:Arsenates; D018053:Arsenites; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D014867:Water; C015001:arsenite; D001151:Arsenic; C025657:arsenic acid