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Article: Groundwater arsenic contamination in the Ganga-Padmameghna-Brahmaputra plain of India and Bangladesh.(Report from a Developing Country)
- Article from:
- Archives of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Objective: This report is presented to highlight the magnitude of arsenic groundwater contamination, and its related health effects, in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra (GMB) plain--an area of 569,749 [km.sup.2], with a population of over 500 million, which largely comprises the flood plains of 3 major river systems that flow through India and Bangladesh.
Design: On the basis of our 17-yr-long study thus far, we report herein the magnitude of groundwater arsenic contamination, its health effects, results of our analyses of biological and food samples, and our investigation into sources of arsenic in the GMB plain
Setting: The GMB plain includes the following ...