The groundwater of the Bengal basin, in Bangladesh and West Bengal state of India, is
found to be severely polluted by non-point sourced, geogenic arsenic (As), which has been …

Tens of millions of people in south and southeast Asia routinely consume ground water that
has unsafe arsenic levels,. Arsenic is naturally derived from eroded Himalayan sediments …

Although arsenic contaminated groundwater in Bangladesh is a serious health issue, little is
known about the complex transient patterns of groundwater flow that flush solutes from …

Arsenic concentrations in shallow, reducing groundwaters in Bengal, Southeast Asia, and
elsewhere constitute a major hazard to the health of people using these waters for drinking …

Freshly collected sediments from Bangladesh were incubated for two months to study the
release of arsenic to groundwater in a low-oxygen environment. The aquifer sands, diluted …

Arsenic is a contaminant in the groundwater of Holocene aquifers in Bangladesh, where≈
57 million people drink water with arsenic levels exceeding the limits set by the World Health …

Over the last several decades, much of population of Bangladesh and West Bengal switched
their water supply from surface water to groundwater. Tragically, much of the region's …

Our recent discovery of hazardous concentrations of arsenic in shallow sedimentary aquifers
in Cambodia raises the spectre of future deleterious health impacts on a population that …

Biogeochemical processes that utilize dissolved organic carbon are widely thought to be
responsible for the liberation of arsenic from sediments to shallow groundwater in south and …

Profiles of porewater pH and dissolved As, Fe, Mn, sulfate, total sulfide (ΣS− II), total zero-
valent sulfur (ΣS0), organic carbon and major ion concentrations, as well as those of solid …