Arsenic Risks: Access to Safe Drinking Water
Published: Mar 31, 2017
Photo: Prasad
The risk of arsenic contamination is greater when water is drawn from shallow hand pumps, Sahebganj, Bihar.
Abstract: Groundwater has increasingly been reported to include largely geogenic and anthropogenic contaminants such as iron, bacteria, arsenic, fluoride, nitrates etc. Over the decades, there has been a growing concern about arsenic contamination due to its severe health consequences.
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