Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater

A Mukherjee, P Coomar, S Sarkar… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Geogenic groundwater contaminants (GGCs) affect drinking-water availability and safety,
with up to 60% of groundwater sources in some regions contaminated by more than …

Impact of climate change on groundwater hydrology: a comprehensive review and current status of the Indian hydrogeology

S Swain, AK Taloor, L Dhal, S Sahoo, N Al-Ansari - Applied Water Science, 2022 - Springer
Groundwater is the second largest store of freshwater in the world. The sustainability of the
ecosystem is largely dependent on groundwater availability, and groundwater has already …

Application of water quality indices, machine learning approaches, and GIS to identify groundwater quality for irrigation purposes: A case study of Sahara Aquifer …

A Gaagai, HA Aouissi, S Bencedira, G Hinge… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
In order to evaluate and project the quality of groundwater utilized for irrigation in the Sahara
aquifer in Algeria, this research employed irrigation water quality indices (IWQIs), artificial …

Arsenic in groundwater of West Bengal, India: a review of human health risks and assessment of possible intervention options

S Bhowmick, S Pramanik, P Singh, P Mondal… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reviews how active research in West Bengal has unmasked the endemic
arsenism that has detrimental effects on the health of millions of people and their offspring. It …

Groundwater extraction, land subsidence, and sea-level rise in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

LE Erban, SM Gorelick, HA Zebker - Environmental Research …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Groundwater exploitation is a major cause of land subsidence, which in coastal areas poses
a flood inundation hazard that is compounded by the threat of sea-level rise (SLR). In the …

Arsenic in a groundwater environment in Bangladesh: Occurrence and mobilization

ME Huq, S Fahad, Z Shao, MS Sarven, IA Khan… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Groundwater with an excessive level of Arsenic (As) is a threat to human health. In
Bangladesh, out of 64 districts, the groundwater of 50 and 59 districts contains As exceeding …

The groundwater arsenic contamination in the Bengal Basin-A review in brief

A Sarkar, B Paul, GK Darbha - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of arsenic in the groundwater of the densely-populated Bengal Basin evolved
as a mass-poisoning agent and is a reason for the misery of millions of people living here …

[HTML][HTML] Groundwater systems of the Indian sub-continent

A Mukherjee, D Saha, CF Harvey, RG Taylor… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indian Sub-Continent is one of the most densely populated regions of the
world, hosting∼ 23% of the global population within only∼ 3% of the world's land area. It …

Machine-learning predictions of high arsenic and high manganese at drinking water depths of the glacial aquifer system, northern continental United States

ML Erickson, SM Elliott, CJ Brown… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Globally, over 200 million people are chronically exposed to arsenic (As) and/or manganese
(Mn) from drinking water. We used machine-learning (ML) boosted regression tree (BRT) …

Release of arsenic to deep groundwater in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, linked to pum**-induced land subsidence

LE Erban, SM Gorelick, HA Zebker… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - pnas.org
Deep aquifers in South and Southeast Asia are increasingly exploited as presumed sources
of pathogen-and arsenic-free water, although little is known of the processes that may …